[mythtv-users] Mirroring root partition on SSD to a hard drive -- bad idea?

[Simon Hobson]

Craig Huff <huffcslists at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have migrated my system disk to an SSD with /var mounted on a separate hard drive to limit wear on the SSD. For protection against the day the SSD fails, I'm thinking of mirroring it to a partition on an available hard drive.

Everyone will have their own preferences.
I stuck an SSD in my backend a while ago, and I just have it as a standalone drive. It replaced raid1 arrays.

As for backups, the solution I use at work is to use rsync to copy everything to a drive on a backup machine, and then use StoreBackup to keep multiple restore points efficiently. At home, well since you mention it, that reminds me* ...


* Actually I do have a backup made with Retrospect, but it doesn't get done as often as I should.