Re: Computer backup- Somewhat off Topic

[Frank Olson <use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug wrote:
> I'm looking at the best way to maintain/back up my office computer which has
> my alarm downloading and alarm management applications running on it, I
> mention that so that the post won't be entirely off topic.
>
> Anyway I have a RAID 1 (mirrored) with a pair of 500gb hard drives and a 2
> port controller card by 3ware.
>
> My thoughts are to either to have one of the drives of the array in a
> removable tray and on a regular basis  remove this drive, probably once a
> week, cycle another tray/drive into the array and then rebuild the array.
> This should ensure that in the event of a virus or corruption of some sort,
> I will only lose, at worst a weeks worth of data which I could live with.
> Any failure of a single drive being taken care of by the RAID.
>
> Alternatively I could have the two drives of the array permanently installed
> and use a disk imaging back up, probably by Terrabyte, to image the array to
> the third disk in the removable tray on a regular basis, again probably once
> a week.
>
> What are the advantages/disadvantages of either method
>
> Doug
>


There's this nifty little drive from Seagate (I don't usually sell their
stuff, but they sent me one to try out).  It's at
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/portable/freeagent_go/

It comes complete with easy to configure software (for scheduled
backups), or you can "backup on the fly".  :-)