Need Suggestions for Automated Backup

[Shawn L Johnston]

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 09:50, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Shawn L Johnston wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 00:44, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> > > Hmm... I never thought about the size thing. Didn't factor it in.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure about RAID, though -- I'll have to do the sums to see if I
> > > can build in some redundancy. Which would you suggest ? Mirroring or a
> > > full RAID-5 array ?
> >
> > It depends on what your goal and finances can allow. Mirroring gives
> > better data protection but is more expensive then RAID-5. And then there
> 
> That's not true.  RAID5, if implimented as a pure hardware solution can be
> significantly more expensive than RAID1.  It depends on the amount of
> hardware you need/want to throw at either implimentation.

Your right, sorry I should have clarrified. It is more expensive in the
sense that with raid-1 you loose 50% of your total storage and with
raid-5 you loose less. 

Shawn