Comments on: Storage Device: Fast, redundant, fail-safe, easy http://www.chuckburt.com/blog/2008/05/31/storage-device-fast-redundant-fail-safe-easy/ Ramblings of a Product Guy Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:06:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Matt http://www.chuckburt.com/blog/2008/05/31/storage-device-fast-redundant-fail-safe-easy/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Matt Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:22:28 +0000 http://www.chuckburt.com/blog/?p=14#comment-145 Here's what I do for my massive music collection: * Two 160GB drives in cheap USB enclosures. * Use one as the main data storage device. * Use the other as a mirrored backup. I don't buy music every day (weekly at best) so I just do an rsync (your Mac should have that on the command line) to syncronize them every few weeks. The benefits of this are: * Cheap, relative to other solutions * Fail safe. Basically same protection as RAID. * (My favorite) The second drive can be taken with you. The beauty of rsync allows changes to BOTH drives between backups. Matt Here’s what I do for my massive music collection:

* Two 160GB drives in cheap USB enclosures.

* Use one as the main data storage device.

* Use the other as a mirrored backup. I don’t buy music every day (weekly at best) so I just do an rsync (your Mac should have that on the command line) to syncronize them every few weeks.

The benefits of this are:

* Cheap, relative to other solutions

* Fail safe. Basically same protection as RAID.

* (My favorite) The second drive can be taken with you. The beauty of rsync allows changes to BOTH drives between backups.

Matt

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