Zombie_X
Headphoneus Supremus
I just got a 2TB external Western Digital Essentials drive from Amazon and I like it a lot. Currently copying all my music over to it and says 4 hours to go... time to play some Dead Space 2 while I wait.
Yep, incremental backups make a lot more sense than 'scratch' backups. Run Linux and the chances that you are backing up anything malevolent are very slim (certainly not 'zero' as some of the zealots would have you believe tho). Linux really is tailor made for storage wonks but personally I couldnt be bothered endlessly tinkering with 10,000+ line Perl scripts simply to ensure that I have a valid backup.
I heard a story about a guy who had 2 hard drives setup in RAID 0 (striped array). He used to do a backup once a week. At the end of the first week he would backup one of the drives then wait untill the end of the second week to back up the other drive.
I'm reasonably sure it's not possible to back up only one drive of a single logical volume containing multiple drives. I don't mean just that it wouldn't work, I mean it's can't be done. But I do recall the dark ages of RAID 0 being all the rage.
Yes, it was a story that I read on another forum. It's probably made up but it did make me laugh when I read it though.
We'll call that an example of someone using terms they didn't understand, perhaps? Can't say too much as I'm sure I've been guilty of the same on more than one occasion.
Then... It's not as bad as you sometimes see on TV where they really should know better.