Raid vs rsync -

[Roberto Ragusa]

On 03/10/2015 09:38 PM, Steven Rosenberg wrote:

> Ideally the capacity of your rsync server would be many times that of
> your main server's data so you could make backups daily, weekly and
> monthly and save enough of them for file recovery in the event of
> human error.
> 

Actually not. You just a need a slightly larger server, if you
use hardlinks: rsync with option --link-dest or utilities using
the same principle (rsnapshot).

You are perfectly right about human error.

RAID-1 protects from disk failure (transparenty)
rsync protects from human error (and disk failure, but with some inconvenience)

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