This would be a good job for rsync perhaps....
P.
Jim Perrin wrote:
>On 12/5/05, Sam Drinkard <sam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>> Is it possible to set up a single disk raid (kind of redundant to call a
>>single disk an array) but I've got a single SATA drive in the machine not
>>doing anything. It's a 10k maxtor 74G drive, and what I really want is just
>>to backup two home partitions. I can always reinstall the OS, but the data
>>can't be recovered that easily. The mobo supports raid-0,1 and jbod.
>>Suggestions?
>>
>>
>
>Really for RAID, you want identical disks. Better solution would be to
>just archive important data to the drive on a semi-regular basis.
>
>as for raid on just one disk, it's not a belt&suspenders type
>scenario, it's a "wearing two belts" scenario. There's no real point,
>because if the drive fails, you're screwed just the same.
>
>
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>Jim Perrin
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>Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center
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