[kde-linux] Kmail

[Scott Couston - Registration Account]

Using RAID 1 is a good idea, however you need to be comfortable in
creating it. If you are using SuSe the Yast partition tool will make
life a lot easier, however there is much to take into account
in mirroring a partition that needs to be researched so that when the
first HDD fails you will not have too much trouble utilising its mirror.
RAID 1 is easy to create, however in the event you need to use the
mirror partition solely comes the time for knowing exactly what to do.

The other possible way is to install Kdar - I would NOT recommend using
this application for backing up a LARGE amounts of data as it has the
following misgivings
1. V2.0.7 has no verify option and Kdar will happily create a corrupted
file - Trust me - Its done it to be 4 times.
2. If you backup a large amount of data Kdar will demand CPU resources
and ignore system throttling and despite your system being configured to
notify on critical temp it will continue until the BIOS shuts you PC
down. This has happened to me 2  times.

The other backup tool is konserv - its a bastard and will frequently
abend with audit trail - Its current code nothing short of Beta.

Not withstanding the above if the amount of data to be backed up is
relatively small Kdar will do the trick and burning the achieve to a CD
will alert you as to the files integrity.

If you are thinking about backing to tape or serious about backups you
can see http://www.storix.com/ and possibly consider tape or DVD. 

Your cheapest and possible your best scenario is to use a DVD drive to
store the files. RAID 1 - Mirroring is fine but in time that drive will
also fail as its load is equal to the primary drive.

Scott


On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 12:00 +0530, Chamith Kumarage wrote:

> Better you switch to RAID..!!!
> 
> ~Chamith
> 
> On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 12:11 +1000, Gerald wrote:
> > Hi To All,
> > Is there a way to backup all Kmail info.
> > This is important to me as i have had 3 250GB hard disk die recently and only 
> > having an image of ./kde/share on a re-writable CD helped.
> > There must be a better and quicker way than this.
> > Many thanks,
> > Gezza
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