Main HTPC running Vista Ultimate hooked to a Sony 61' HDTV.Ĩ. I know - alot of PC's but most are not on all the time.ġ. I have a SnapStream Beyond TV Server setup with 4 link clients, shows are recorded and saved to the Windows home server which also backs up 10 pc's in the home. I replaced a Drobo with unRaid because unRaid does pretty much the same thing, but allows > 4 drives. At the very least I would echo that the unMENU stuff shoudl be considered as it's added flexibility is terrific! I intend to move to using BubbaQs software as well once I'm done moving disks and updating the SATA box with a couple of Seagate 1.5s - fingers crossed on these suckers as they have spit some SMART errors. I am using unMENU and really appreciate the additional information it provides including access to SMART data which is proving VERY interesting. This machine streams to a Linux XBMC box and an old XBOX machine around the house. Too much to backup in a second place but I DO have my music backed up in about 3 other spots since reripping it *AGAIN* would suck - badly! Journalspace disaster is possible, cannot be helped I am afraid so I am careful. ALL of my DVD and blueray rips here and my music as well. I had two IDE in this one, now just one being used as cache. I will upgrade this to SATA one of these days. This machine is a general dumping ground for downloaded 'stuff' and has a decent amount of free space available despite using smaller IDE drives. ISO of all things like my Vista and XP disks, pictures, downloaded TV shows, and backups from my desktops. One server - all IDE - is general file storage.

By the way, I do recommend Jungle Disk and similar offsite storage, to complete your backup plan, especially good for things like non-video media collections.īecause the pix are so important, I actually have backups of them in 2 different geographic locations in MI and a copy in CA

Rather than take up more off-topic time here, please see something I wrote awhile back on the Jungle Disk forums. The next most important factor is temporal diversity, to limit the propagation of error (things like the JournalSpace disaster). The safety of a particular backup copy is certainly a factor in good backup strategies, but the most important factors are copy redundancy and location diversity, of said copies. The general 'rule' here is, RAID is not backup. It becomes easy for you and anyone else who reads this to assume that their backup strategies are SAFE *because* it is on a RAID system, and no further backup is necessary. I know you had the best of intentions, and I do agree that the additional RAID features will add to the SAFETY of this backup copy, but therein lies the danger. 1 - pictures archive - it is extremely important that I be able to recover these in case of failure - I look forward to a 2-parity drive system

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