Re: What logs etc do I need tocheckfrequently?

From: Massimiliano Stucchi (max_at_willystudios.com)
Date: 12/28/03

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    Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 22:30:05 +0100
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

    On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:14:47 -0500
    "C. Ulrich" <dincht@securenym.net> wrote:
     
    > I have had a dedicated file server on my home network for years. It
    > serves out files to clients on the network via SMB and HTTP. This
    > machine stores all of my permanent (and not so permanent) data and has
    > two large identical disks. Only the first is used. The other is used
    > strictly to back up the information on the first. A cron job runs a
    > script at 7AM every morning which powers up the backup disk, mounts
    > it, performs an incremental backup and then powers down the backup
    > disk again until the next morning.

    So why not use a cheap IDE RAID controller and do RAID1 ? I think it
    would be much safer, and reduce the amount of time needed to restore the
    system once a hard drive fails. We use RAID1 with a spare drive on our
    web and email servers here, and there's no downtime each time a drive
    fails, having put all the drives on hot-swap bays on a promise fasttrack
    controller.

    Greetings 

    -- 
Stucchi Massimiliano     | Gruppo Utenti FreeBSD Italia
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