Hey all,
I've been looking for the best answer on this question for a few days, but I keep finding conflicting answers.
Basically, I have 2 x 1TB 32MB cache hard drives, and 1 x 500GB 32MB cache hard drive.
I am trying to find out the best way to protect my data, and the quickest way to recover my data when/if a hard drive fails. All I want is redundancy, and to avoid having to reinstall the OS and ALL MY PROGRAMS; super time consuming.
I read about RAID configurations and backup solutions. I also found a few really nice posts on this forum too. and here is what I have come up with so far.
I am thinking about putting the 2 1TB hard drives in RAID 1 drive mirroring. I would then backup all the goodies I couldn't stand to lose by a daily incremental backup to the 500GB hard drive. The 500GB hard drive would be taken with me or left in the fire proof save to cover theft. I know the mirroring will safe guard against hard drive failure, but probably does not offer protection against viruses and operating system failure. I do have top notch Kaspersky Internet Security protection, but you can never fully count antivirus protection.
I do have acronis home true image home 2010 to assist with backups. The other option would be to just use the 1TB hard drive to make complete incremental backups of the operating system state and data everyday I suppose.
What's your two cents? All posts are truly appreciated.
I've been looking for the best answer on this question for a few days, but I keep finding conflicting answers.
Basically, I have 2 x 1TB 32MB cache hard drives, and 1 x 500GB 32MB cache hard drive.
I am trying to find out the best way to protect my data, and the quickest way to recover my data when/if a hard drive fails. All I want is redundancy, and to avoid having to reinstall the OS and ALL MY PROGRAMS; super time consuming.
I read about RAID configurations and backup solutions. I also found a few really nice posts on this forum too. and here is what I have come up with so far.
I am thinking about putting the 2 1TB hard drives in RAID 1 drive mirroring. I would then backup all the goodies I couldn't stand to lose by a daily incremental backup to the 500GB hard drive. The 500GB hard drive would be taken with me or left in the fire proof save to cover theft. I know the mirroring will safe guard against hard drive failure, but probably does not offer protection against viruses and operating system failure. I do have top notch Kaspersky Internet Security protection, but you can never fully count antivirus protection.
I do have acronis home true image home 2010 to assist with backups. The other option would be to just use the 1TB hard drive to make complete incremental backups of the operating system state and data everyday I suppose.
What's your two cents? All posts are truly appreciated.