My laptop has crashed and although I've got some stuff backed up, I've lost quite a lot. To stop the same happening to my Linux desktop (which is less likely, since you don't often drop desktops
) I have ordered another 160Gb HDD, thinking I would set up a RAID array (my BIOS supports it but I've only ever had one SATA hard drive running)
However, is it worth setting up an automatic mirrored disk? Thought I might plug in my older IDE drive as a local backup point, but a mirrored disk of the main disk (I'm losing myself here...) would make system recovery easier, assuming hardware failure of the first disk. Is this a good idea, or should I just install it as a second drive and run regular backups of different files?
Any recommended backup solutions for Linux (SuSE 10.3)?