On Thursday 13 July 2006 12:03, Eben King wrote:
> Well, I'd be very hesitant to back up to the same device. Yes, it protects
> you from random filesystem damage, but I had a (30GB?) drive where the best
> I could figure was the head periodically went across the entire disk
> writing garbage. It wouldn't protect you from that, or from any one of
> other systemic failures.
You are right but he's not looking at backing up to the same device if he has
raid-1.
--Steve Szmidt
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