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Mirrored Raid Set

I have two disks arranged as a mirrored RAID set and wonder how I will know when one of the disks fails and which one it is.

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Nov 9, 2012 11:32 AM

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Posted on Nov 9, 2012 1:06 PM

Mirrored RAID is sort of worthless for most all users as anything bad happens gets immediately copied to the other drive.



Your better off with scheduled clones, this way every so often it will remind you to hook it up and update it, or leave one hooked up and it will update itself.


You get both hardware AND software protection as you only update when you know it's good.


Also you can keep several clones backdated, and they are all independently bootable. 😉


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User profile for user: ds store
ds store
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Nov 9, 2012 1:06 PM in response to Tyler the Wolf

Mirrored RAID is sort of worthless for most all users as anything bad happens gets immediately copied to the other drive.



Your better off with scheduled clones, this way every so often it will remind you to hook it up and update it, or leave one hooked up and it will update itself.


You get both hardware AND software protection as you only update when you know it's good.


Also you can keep several clones backdated, and they are all independently bootable. 😉


Most commonly used backup methods

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