RAID-0 Boot Disk (240GB) - Ideas for backup?

[Wayne Youngman]

Hi,

I was just wondering what you guys using RAID-0 as a boot disk do to back-up
the array?. I was originally thinking of getting an *external* USB
2.0/Fire-wire 250GB drive and using the WinXP backup app to mirror my array
(scheduled daily), or maybe just sticking a regular drive inside my PC for
the same purpose. My last idea was very similar to the one I mentioned
except the back-up disk/device would be attached to a networked computer.
However now I am thinking about it I don't think my 100Mbps network could
handle 200GBs worth of data crawling across it.

Anyway it would seem that using another drive would be the obvious choice,
but I'm open to suggestions or insights from *theory* masters or people that
are doing something similar. . .

Any thoughts?

Wayne ][

 

[Rod Speed]

I was just wondering what you guys using RAID-0
as a boot disk do to back-up the array?.

The better backup apps do that fine.

I was originally thinking of getting an *external*
USB 2.0/Fire-wire 250GB drive and using the WinXP
backup app to mirror my array (scheduled daily),

That'd work fine.

or maybe just sticking a regular drive
inside my PC for the same purpose.

Ditto. The main downside with this approach is
that it is possible to have the power supply die
spectacularly and kill all drives in the case.

Or just have that stolen or the room burn down etc.

My last idea was very similar to the one I mentioned except the
back-up disk/device would be attached to a networked computer.
However now I am thinking about it I don't think my 100Mbps
network could handle 200GBs worth of data crawling across it.

Yeah, you'll get a noticeably slower backup that way.

Tho you dont have to mindlessly copy the entire
200GB every night with a decent backup app.

Anyway it would seem that using another
drive would be the obvious choice,

Yeah, its generally best for personal desktop system backup today.

but I'm open to suggestions or insights from *theory*
masters or people that are doing something similar. . .

Any thoughts?

I gave up on those, they just make my head hurt.

 

[Wayne Youngman]

Wayne Youngma wrote in

Yeah, you'll get a noticeably slower backup that way.
Tho you dont have to mindlessly copy the entire
200GB every night with a decent backup app.

Hi Mr Speed,

thanks for the feedback. I never really thought about all this before, so I
am quite enjoying the thought-process. Going back to the network backup
idea, yes you are right, I would only have to choose *selective* data to
backup, hmm this network idea seems more appealing the more I think about
it. I just turned my old PC into a server meets hard-drive farm, it has
quite a bit of disk space. . .I will play and let you know how I get on. .

Wayne ][

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Hi,

I was just wondering what you guys using RAID-0 as a boot disk do to back-up
the array?. I was originally thinking of getting an *external* USB
2.0/Fire-wire 250GB drive and using the WinXP backup app to mirror my array
(scheduled daily), or maybe just sticking a regular drive inside my PC for
the same purpose. My last idea was very similar to the one I mentioned
except the back-up disk/device would be attached to a networked computer.

However now I am thinking about it I don't think my 100Mbps network could
handle 200GBs worth of data crawling across it.

Not if you use something like FILEWARE's Filesync that only updates files that differ.

Anyway it would seem that using another drive would be the obvious choice,
but I'm open to suggestions or insights from *theory* masters or people that
are doing something similar. . .

Any thoughts?

Wayne ][