Re: Hard disk copying

["Stuart Meier" <stuartmeier@xxxxxxx>]

I had bundles of hassle with tape drives and worried what would happen if
the
machine chewed itself - fine, I'd have the tape, but no easy way to access
it.

These days I have a scheduled MSDOS xcopy of all data files at 3am from one
HD
to another over my network to another machine . Very basic, but it has
always
worked reliably, and even if the mirrored machine eats itself, I have my
files...

Stuart
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dean Barrett" <dean@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 10:02 AM
> Subject: [ukha_d] Hard disk copying
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> Hi All
>
> Following my server hd crash i'm now of course absolutely paraniod
about
> another failure.
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> I would like suggestions  for suitable protection against this again -
how
> does disk mirroring work ? I believe it slows machine down, but i
assume i'd
> have an exact copy of my harddrive continuously. I dont fancy greater
> degrees pf RAID as this seems like a lot of hassle.
>
> I need a fairly simple solution that will protect us.
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>
> Thanks
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> Dean.
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