Thanks everybody for the answers, now I think I've got the point.

And about

2009/11/20 Christian Völker <chrischan AT knebb DOT de>:
> or RAID10). Just wondering why you have a backup if s single disk fail
> destroys it all...

Well, the "master" external USB disk was a quick solution to patch a
totally lack of client backups, and it was the best we could do with
the old hardware we had at that time.

> Re rsync tool, I'd not recommend to use. It sounds good, but due to the
> nature of the pool it might take days (!) to sync properly 'coz of all
> the hardlinks.

Yeah I remember it was the first method I tried but I was getting
strange results (different disk usage size I guess) so I switched to
dd.

Bye,

-- 
Alexander Fortin

Studio Synthesis srl
Business Process Consulting
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