From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 8 12:16:24 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C8471065677 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:16:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from D.Forsyth@ru.ac.za) Received: from c.mail.ru.ac.za (c.mail.ru.ac.za [IPv6:2001:4200:1010::25:3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B14038FC22 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:16:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from D.Forsyth@ru.ac.za) Received: from iwr.ru.ac.za ([146.231.64.249]:58899) by c.mail.ru.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1MDdm0-000OIw-HU for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:16:20 +0200 Received: from iwdf-5.iwr.ru.ac.za ([146.231.64.28]) by iwr.ru.ac.za with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1MDdm0-000PqX-GM for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:16:20 +0200 From: "DA Forsyth" Organization: IWR To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:16:20 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <4A2D1D34.30423.EDBB90D@d.forsyth.ru.ac.za> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20090608120030.7F44E106568E@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20090608120030.7F44E106568E@hub.freebsd.org> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (4.41) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body X-Virus-Scanned: c.mail.ru.ac.za (146.231.129.35) Subject: Re: Opinion request about a file server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: d.forsyth@ru.ac.za List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:16:24 -0000 On 8 Jun 2009 , freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org entreated about "freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 262, Issue 2": > Message: 13 > Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:18:09 +0200 (CEST) > From: Wojciech Puchar > > SO, to the original question, yes that motherboard will work just > > fine. What are you doing for system backups? A single drive is not > > enough. I recommend a mirror pair at least, and suggest a second box > > why? it's a backup system not main system. >From his original it seemd he would be using a single drive for the system and a mirror pair for data. Seems I got it wrong and the single drive will be for 'some other purpose'. Fine, but all the more reason to back it up. A backup server is not the place to avoid data security. From personal experience I can tell you that life is hell when your backup drives are needed but don't work. My backup server has a mirror pair for the data, and that gets copied to an external drive which lives off site. And I'm not sure I've got enough backups.... yet (-: -- DA Fo rsyth Network Supervisor Principal Technical Officer -- Institute for Water Research http://www.ru.ac.za/institutes/iwr/