SnapRAID is a backup program for disk arrays.

SnapRAID stores redundancy information in the disk array, and it allows recovering from up to two disk failures.

SnapRAID is mainly targeted for a home media center, where you have a lot of big files that rarely change.

Beside the ability to recover from disk failures, the other features of SnapRAID are:

• You can start using SnapRAID with already filled disks.
• The disks of the array can have different sizes.
• You can add disks at any time.
• If you accidentally delete some files in a disk, you can recover them.
• If more than two disks fail, you lose the data only on the failed disks. All the data in the other disks is safe.
• It doesn't lock-in your data. You can stop using SnapRAID at any time without the need to reformat or move data.
• All your data is hashed to ensure data integrity and to avoid silent corruption.

SnapRAID has also a SourceForge and a FreshMeat page. If you need support, ask it in the Forum.

If you need a GUI for SnapRAID, you can check Elucidate.

News! Version 3.0 RELEASED! Download it here. See also the ChangeLog.