I don't. I mean, not
really. Not like I could recover from disaster and have all my data
intact. Shit, some of the data I 'backed up' onto CD and DVD is already
worthless. Discs do get bad with age.
Seriously, who backs up 120gb and 160gb drives?
Seriously, who backs up 120gb and 160gb drives?
I originally bought my 120 and had it
sled-mounted and used it to back up my system/bin partitions and my
data partition, only it took 2 whole days to use windows backup utility
to do this, and according to my pops,
when it needs to be restored, one hase to first re-install and re-patch
windows to the identical patch level it was at when you took the
backup. Please. Who tracks this info? I want them dead. I want to punch
them.
So if I had raid 5, would I be any better off? Could I rest easy knowing I'd just slap a new drive in? Does win32 + raid controller of your choice know to alert me and bug me? Would it do the right thing, or would it go right on freaking out? Would I have to own like a shitload of extra drives? Wouldn't mirroring be as easy? Certainly any hard-drive-based backup is better than burning off 9gb dual layer discs at 5 smackers a pop. (Doing the math: 150gb / 9gb * 4 smackers is roughly 60 smackers to make a full disc backup.)
So if I had raid 5, would I be any better off? Could I rest easy knowing I'd just slap a new drive in? Does win32 + raid controller of your choice know to alert me and bug me? Would it do the right thing, or would it go right on freaking out? Would I have to own like a shitload of extra drives? Wouldn't mirroring be as easy? Certainly any hard-drive-based backup is better than burning off 9gb dual layer discs at 5 smackers a pop. (Doing the math: 150gb / 9gb * 4 smackers is roughly 60 smackers to make a full disc backup.)
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