Greg Oster wrote:

> Amitai Schlair writes:
> 
> > That sounds hard for me to screw up, which is a desirable property of a 
> > backup regimen.
> >
> > Speaking of screwing up, another rather important question comes to 
> > mind: what happens when I need to restore data? I usually won't want to 
> > roll back the whole filesystem to the way it was two weeks ago. How can 
> > I safely mount the "old" component's filesystem in order to copy backups 
> > of just the affected files onto the active (and temporarily degraded) 
> > RAID set?
> 
> That will be a little bit trickier, since RAIDframe is going to 
> incorporate that "old component" into the RAID set...  The easiest 
> solution is probably to create another partition on that disk...

Easy enough. This'll work well. I'll post a write-up once I've been 
doing backups this way for a few weeks.

Thanks for your help and advice (oh, and your work on RAIDframe too ;-).

- Amitai