Jon D. Slater writes: >I don't need any archival on either machine. My primary concern is hard >disk failure. > so the >only backups would be of /home and the mySQL db's. then you need to have a script that dumps the MySQL dbs and rsync/rcp/rwhatever the resulting dump file. it's good to then try and load up the databases on the new system to prove to yourself that you know how to do that. (MySQL dumps can be annoying to load.) if hard drive failure is the dominant concern, you may wish to consider software raid, or perhaps going with one of the newer S-ATA RAID controllers. of course, when the motherboard goes, this won't help much. it really helps to play out all the hardware failure scenarios in your head and work out your risk tolerance for each one. richard
