[COLUG] Hard Drive Failure?

[Brett Stauffer]

On Tue, 2006-10-17 at 22:10 -0400, Matt Gardlik wrote:

> I was able to install CentOS with no problems, 

Good choice.  I recently switched to CentOS on a home system, and have
been thrilled.  If you're accustomed to the Red Hat way of doing things,
it's hard to beat.

> I sure am glad that I make backups of things--including configuration
> files.

How big is the second disk in your system?  If you have enough space,
you could back up all of your OS partitions onto the second disk.
Likewise, you could back up your second disk (or at least a portion of
it) on to your new 160GB drive.  That way you'd be protected against a
failure of either disk.

I have a couple of scripts in cron.weekly that do this with rsync.
While I haven't needed the backup for a disk failure yet, it is
sometimes nice to have a weekly snapshot to refer back to.


--brett