http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2005/10/03/changing-views/ A blog for odd things and odd thoughts. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:00:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/2005/10/03/changing-views/comment-page-1/#comment-3289 girtby.net » Blog Archive » You Only Have to Backup the Stuff You Want to Keep Tue, 28 Mar 2006 03:47:05 +0000 http://www.somethinkodd.com/oddthinking/?p=94#comment-3289 [...] In other news, I’ve also been playing with FreeBSD’s Software RAID-1 feature for extra protection against disk failures (but not as a backup strategy). I have an idea that this feature can also be used to test my backups by dynamically, that is, with the system running. The plan is to un-mirror my two drives, restoring the backup to one of the drives, and then comparing the drives to each other on a file-by-file basis. Lastly the plan is to re-mirror the drives all without rebooting. I’ll report back if I get this working. [...] [...] In other news, I’ve also been playing with FreeBSD’s Software RAID-1 feature for extra protection against disk failures (but not as a backup strategy). I have an idea that this feature can also be used to test my backups by dynamically, that is, with the system running. The plan is to un-mirror my two drives, restoring the backup to one of the drives, and then comparing the drives to each other on a file-by-file basis. Lastly the plan is to re-mirror the drives all without rebooting. I’ll report back if I get this working. [...]

]]>