Alternative backup method
I have bin playing around with a few ideas for an alternative backup method. Tape backups are just too expensive. For any of you have bin in the industry long and have had to do a few disaster recoveries from tapes that turned out to be bad you will understand. Here is what I have as an alternative. All SME servers I deploy have a software mirror set. The drives are mounted in ide swappable drive bays. So you turn a key and you can pull out the drive. Now if I had three drives two on the computer as mirrors and one spare. What would happen if I pulled out the slave and stuck in the new drive? Assuming they are all the same size of course. Would the computer build the mirror on this knew drive. I could then take the old drive off site. Two weeks later I could repeat the prose’s and just switch between the two drives. If all went to hell I could just throw the drive in another computer and there is you server. But there are a few questions.
I am going to test this but I thought I would ask first
1: Could I do this with the computer turned on? Or would I have to turn off the computer swap the drives and turn it back on.
2: if the place burnt down and all I had was the spar drive could I throw it in a different computer with different hardware and have it boot. (Ok I know the answer to that one) So what would it take to get it to work on a different computer?
Give me your constructive criticism.
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