On Thursday 13 July 2006 12:37, Eben King wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, steve szmidt wrote:
> > 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.
>
> True, but that's what's happening now. Or have I misread this:
>
> ,--
>
> | A partition on my 160 GB drive that holds my Suse9.2 came up with errors.
> | Fortunately, it was a partition that held some old backup files so
> | nothing important was lost.
>
> '--
These were back files from another HD!
Don
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