In Reply to: RE: Good Thread For Me posted by E-Stat on October 21, 2014 at 17:55:52:
>> You don't need an exact copy of the hard drive itself, just the files
>> on the drive.
>
> Unless of course you want to spend the next eight hours reloading
> the operating system, downloading all the updates and restoring all
> your applications and finally all your data.
>
> Not I, thank you. I ghost the OS. And used it the week before last
> when I moved from the original 750 GB drive to a new 2 TB drive. I
> didn't have to deal with any of that time consuming crap.
>
> Your choice. :)
Yes, drive mirroring is a good backup approach for the system disk. I was assuming (perhaps incorrectly) that he was speaking of keeping the library on a separate drive. I would never keep my media files on the same drive as the operating system unless the server was strictly limited to a single disk drive.
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