Kasper Sandberg wrote: > Im not treating it as a backup, what i want, is to make sure that if 1 > disk dies, the data is still intact and ill hopefully be able to run > with 1 disk till the newly ordered one arrives Probably one of the main design objectives behind RAID/md > So my question remains.. Is md raid1 not suited for this need? would it > be safer to run in non-raid1 mode and daily(maybe hourly) rsync > everything over to the second disk? md is 100% guaranteed perfect or your money back... rsync is 100% guaranteed perfect or your money back... your backups are 100% guaranteed perfect or your money back... your hard drives are 100% guaranteed perfect or your money back... your CPU and RAM are 100% guaranteed perfect or your money back... your CPU and PSU fans are 100% guaranteed perfect or your money back... Clearly if you want to panic over reliability you have lots of choices :) David PS, FWIW md has saved my data* countless times over the past 'n' years in exactly the scenario you describe. *(or more accurately has saved me from having to restore my data) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
