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SnapRAID
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SnapRAID is a backup program for a disk array using redundancy.
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SnapRAID uses a disk of the array to store redundancy information,
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and it allows to recover from up to two disk failures.
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SnapRAID is mainly targeted for a home media center, where you have
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a lot of big files that rarely change.
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Beside the ability to recover from disk failures, the other
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features of SnapRAID are:
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* You can start using SnapRAID with already filled disks.
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* The disks can have different sizes.
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* You can add more disks at any time.
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* If you accidentally delete some files in a disk, you can
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recover them.
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* If more than two disk fails, you lose the data only on the
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failed disks. All the data in the other disks is safe.
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* It doesn't lock-in your data. You can stop using SnapRAID at any
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time without the need to reformat or move data.
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* All your data is hashed to ensure data integrity.
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The official site of SnapRAID is:
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http://snapraid.sourceforge.net
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