Craig, Your last paragraph says it all for me. I'm more focused on fire, flood, theft, lightning strike, and power outage than media failure per se. Which reminds me: I've got a good little UPS whose SLA battery is quite dead. Need to get to Jaycar or Altronics and replace the battery with a new one. Carl On 23/04/14 17:13, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 05:01:18PM +1000, Carl Turney wrote:
Yeah, my style of "restoring" isn't that common an occurrence, so editing the relevant files on the rare occasion would be OK.
BTW, an even better alternative is to just leave both drives in the system, configured as a RAID-1 set. as long as you have grub installed into the MBR of both drives, it would never matter if one drive died, the other would still keep working and you'd be able to boot without any fuss.
if/when a drive dies, just replace it and tell mdadm about it and it will automatically sync everything to the the replacement.
of course, RAID is not a substitute for backup (it doesn't save you from hasty deletes or disasters like fires) so it would be a good idea to have a third, removable, drive to keep on backing up your system to.
craig