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i would recommend you also do snapshots. mirroring will just replicate a bad fuckup. as for OP, i share your concerns - i'm skeptical of the reliability of co
by beachstartup 11y ago
i would recommend you also do snapshots. mirroring will just replicate a bad fuckup.
as for OP, i share your concerns - i'm skeptical of the reliability of consumer gear in an application like this, especially in the absence of an actual backup solution (maybe he doesn't care).
he calls it a backup server, but it's actively serving files.
- pfarnsworth 11y agoYes, I agree, mirroring will help when a disk goes back, but it won't help if you accidentally delete data. This is the one that people tend to forget a lot, which is ironically the original reason for having backups.
- foobarian 11y agoI have two sets of drives on my home server and keep them mirrored using a nightly rsync. It's infrequent enough that I can recover from accidents.
- XorNot 11y agoThis is why people should use ZFS (or BTRFS) - snapshots. My home server runs a minutely, hourly, daily and monthly snapshot job. Cryptolocker could have a field day and the most likely scenario is at worst I'd lose a day of data - more likely maybe 15 minutes worth.
- post_break 11y agoI'd love to but my OS limits me from running ZFS.