Thad E Ginathom
Well-Known Member
RAID requires more hard disks to store the same amount of data, so increases the budget. It is not a guarantee against all kinds of failure and should never be thought to replace external backups. You can be sure that a lightening surge will take out your entire RAID!
(which, by the way, is why I keep my onsite backup disk unplugged from the PC except when actually in use.)
Software... I live in the Linux world and find grsync to be easy and excellent. There was a Windows thing that did much the same, called something like Always-something [???] that I thought was exellent. The only trouble was that it kept on accusing me of using it for professional use and telling me to buy a licence. I liked the software so much I bought the damned licence :lol:
When using synchronising software for backup, be sure that your settings do not delete on destination unless you having a big clean up and have really, really thought about it. (I had a "de-duping" session recently. Having removed all the duplicates and definately-garbage stuff from the PC, I did a delete-on-destination sync to the backups. After seriously perusing the what-will-this-do dry-run listing.
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