[mythtv-users] RAID 1

[Eric Sharkey]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Daryl McDonald <darylangela at gmail.com> wrote:
> With all the mucking around I've been doing lately there was a small
> indication that there was a bad sector on the terabyte drive that I used to
> use for the entire system, partitioned, of course. So having a recordings
> backup is my aim, eventually any drive will fail, right? At my disposal
> currently are the aforementioned 250, and two terabytes as well as an
> external terabyte. I am open to simple effective suggestions.

For stuff I want to keep a backup of, I just use rsync from a cron job
to sync one disk to another.

Specifically, I use the rlbackup scripts (which call rsync) you can find here:

http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/rlbackup/

It's easy and effective.

Eric