Mirroring Mac Mini HD with new LaCie HD

This may not be the right forum, but I'm trying to use RAID to mirror my HD with a new LaCie HD I purchased. The connection is via Firewire, so I'm thinking this may be the reason I can't seem to set RAID up for this. Apple support couldn't help either. Does anyone know how I can do this?

Hey miniman,
Since the hard drive located in the mini is different than what Lacie uses, chances are even if you tried to RAID the two and actually succeed, it wouldnt be too safe of a move to pull.
Your best bet is to look into "rsync" or "ditto" which are OS based backup options via command line. There's a lot of documentation online that's pretty straight forward on how to set it up. Also, using "cron", you can set it up to back up hourly, daily, etc...

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