Re: Computer backup- Somewhat off Topic

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Frank Olson wrote:
> 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".  :-)

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