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Hello All,
A RAID setup without file/image backup is more useless then the other
way around imo. Both is best.
RAID only protects against HD failures with are far less frequent
than viruses/crashes/accidental deletions. (don't use 5 year old HDs)
A year back my PSU somehow gone mad. It killed 2 HDs and my MB.
Those drives where inside the same machine like RAID.
Now I have a 1 GB network. I store my backups on that network.
A bit like the datacenter idea others suggested. And protects me from
PSU problems.
With the difference that my network has a theoretical max. of
100Mbyte/sec. That speed is important if you need to recover during a
trading day.
I have full control on how and what I backup.
And can burn everything to DVD.
Yes, it takes a while to setup. But after that it's fully automated.
Except from the DVD part.
If you use Casper/Ghost a lot of space is needed. But normal file
backup will do most of the time.
It all depends on the safety level you are after but I think the
solution is a combination of things...
For the very paranoid; a PC can die. No backup/RAID solution can help
you then. Solution is simple. Get 2 identical PCs.
1 PC you use for trading. The other one just idles. It's HD just get
updated regularly with the image of the trading PC.
When the main PC fries just start using the backup PC.
Tuesday, July 19, 2005, 6:52:26 PM, you wrote:
JS> If you really want to test your brain use BOTH. With Serial ATA
JS> drives you can have RAID. Then you can have a ATA or serial drive in
JS> addition to the two serial ATA drives back up on.
JS> I didn't use RAID but did use two Serial ATA drives that Casper cloned
JS> one to the other. Then I also had a bootable IDE type ATA drive that
JS> had everything on it including a nightly backup using Windows XP's
JS> shadow backup. The beauty of this is you can, depending on your BIOS
JS> options, boot to the IDE drive instead of the Serial ATA drives by
JS> simply making a change in the BIOS during your reboot.
JS> Sorry to complicate things,
JS> Jimmy
JS> Thanks for all the advice. Will consider RAID but probably will go with
JS> Casper.
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Best regards,
Tony
More people I meet, more I like my dog....
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