Linux Harddrive Question

In a message on 20 Feb 2005 17:30:59 -0800, wrote :

While this is true, it is still a *sort of backup*. It is unlikely that two disk drives will fail at the same time -- if this was common, things like RAID systems would be meaningless, at least the various 'redundency' type RAID (mirroring and parity disks). Basicly, the OP has a 'crude' form of mirroring. So long as he DOES NOT make a ghost copy of a disk with errors, he is OK. It sounds like he should STOP mirroring at this point and buy a new 250GB drive and use Ghost to initialize it from the 'good' disk (the one NOT reporting errors).

Yes, he should *also* be making backups of unreplacable data to some sort of off-line storage (CD-Rs, DVD-Rs, Zips, Orbs, etc.). There is no need to make backups of the *system* files, since this can be restored by doing a fresh install (presumably he has a set of install CDs and has backups of the update RPMs he has installed). He should do packagelist.gz off line someplace). And yes, make backups ofetc andusr-local and *maybe*var-log.