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Another note : The use of mirrored drives (eg RAID 1) can also be a helpful addition to the mix. In brief, mirrored drives are where two HDD's are linked together and any operations are done to both.
This of course will offer no protection against catastrophy (eg fire) or against human error (eg overwritting/deleting a file etc) - but it DOES offer protection against HDD failure without the need to ever back up anything.
Actually, I'm running both RAID 0 and 1 - I have a mirrored drive where anything I want protected goes, and use my "striped" drive for things where speed is more important (eg for my video editing etc).
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