Hi, Anders: Anders Widman wrote: > Well, have you ever heard of diskcabbinettes? I use them alot wich means I don't have to have 10 disks in the same coputer at the same time. Then what, hot swap? Well this is very much possible, and secure > (look at Promise.com). > > IDE disk drives are very cheap and fast enough (Maxtor 160GB has a write performance of about 35MB/s in average) for most purposes and does not require special hardware or software. > Well... let's consider all aspects. I'm a sysadmin the kind of BOFH, so late in the evening I usually find myself a bit overloaded on beer. Specially on friday, if I have to stay at work past 5PM I have the irresistible temptation to go to the closet and piss*1 on the diskcabbinet. Guess what? when I do so *all* our backup media (your IDE disks) goes nuts at a time. For a backup policy you *must* take appart the media from the on-line data to be protected. Having all your backup media in a single place is *BAAAAAAAD* idea (TM). Now, start moving from the cabinet to the in-place closet your disks one day and another, and to the off-site closet at least once a month, and tell me you won't need to replace your disks on a shorter basis than your DTLs or DDSs. *1: Standard dramatization in place. I *don't* do that (specilly true if my boss is reading this article X^D ) -- SALUD, Jesús *** jesus_navarro@promofinarsa.es *** _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
