Hi reliability files, writing,reading and maintaining

[Terry Reedy]

"John Pote" <johnpote at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message 
news:Y15Gf.280109$D47.254492 at fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
> I would wish to secure this data gathering against crashes of the OS,

I have read about people running *nix servers a year or more without 
stopping.

> hardware failures

To transparently write to duplicate disks, lookup RAID (but not level 0 
which I believe does no duplication).

>and power outages.

The UPSes (uninterruptable power supplies) sold in stores will run a 
computer about half an hour on the battery.  This is long enough to either 
gracefully shut down the computer or startup a generator.