[mythtv-users] Newbie

[Gavin Whitehead]

On 03/12/2011 09:37, Petteri wrote:
> 02.12.2011 23:36, Gavin Whitehead kirjoitti:
>> -----------snip------------------------
>> Simon,
>>
>> I'm interested by your statement "Don't raid or stripe your recording
>> disks together...."
>>
>> I'm in the process of building a MythTV combined FE/BE and I had thought
>> to put in 2 x 2TB SATA disks for the recordings and video/music
>> library.  I was going to use RAID1 (mirror) so that a single disk
>> failure didn't mean I loose all my recordings and ripped videos/music.
>>
>> But you seem to be advising against this approach.  How do you protect
>> against data lose if not via RAID?
>>
>> Gavin
> Hi,
>
> You could simply make ordinary backup of more important data to the
> second disk with cronjob and (for example) rsync or rdiff-backup. I have
> two disks for recordings and music library and I backup music library to
> the second disk occasionally with cronjob as re-ripping it would be huge
> PITA.
>
> Petteri
>
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Agreed.  I'm three weeks in to ripping my CDs and I've only got up to D!

Gavin