breathe wrote on Tue, 04 January 2011 09:07 |
I am super lame when it comes to backing up data. The only way I know how to do it is to copy a project to a second (or third) hard drive? I forget the version of RAID where it just writes to two disks at once but what's the easiest way to do that with a pair of same model firewire hard drives?
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RAID is not a backup scheme.
You can set up a "software" RAID on Mac OS X using two same-sized drives (can be FireWire, USB, internal, whatever). I had this setup once. The problem is that if your machine glitches for whatever reason, the RAID set needs rebuilding and it's a pain, especially if you boot from the RAID.
So you want hardware RAID. I have a Drobo. It works as advertised.
And you still need a backup system. Time Machine is great for the OS and applications and general-type files (word processing, mail, whatever) but for backing up audio projects, you should spring for another dedicated drive and copy stuff over manually.
-a