Partitioning of hard drive and / or RAID setup ???

[Fish Chris]

Cool...... but this brings another thought to mind.....

I think this is worth a whole new thread though. Check my post; Running a PC 24/7 ?

Peace,

Fish

Yeah. That's what I did. Worked well for me. I set mine to backup every week. But I believe it will go down to 1 day.

[Boon]

RAID is NOT backup. It is redundancy from hardware failure. If your OS gets hosed by a virus or something your RAID controller will carefully replicate the fail on to all the disks in the array.

Partitioning is also not backing up, as mentioned above you may as well just have 2 folders and duplicate everything. Hardware failure = screwed, reasonable software failure = screwed.

The only way to properly back up is to an external device that you then remove from the computer and ideally remove from the physical environment as well, in case your computer gets stolen/lightning'd/whatever.