Re: Computer backup- Somewhat off Topic

["alarman" <thatsallfolksl@xxxxxxxxx>]

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

I have been thinking of subscribing to one of those off-site services, and
schedule automatic backups over the internet. Just wonder how secure they
are.

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