[NMLUG] Disk-to-disk copying and booting

[matthew.mccleary at gmail.com (Matthew McCleary)]

A RAID array *does* sound like a good idea, doesn't it? In fact, I
suggested it. It may be something I'll end up looking into long-term;
however, management doesn't currently support that option. I'm getting
a "disk-to-disk copies is the way we've always done it; it's the way
we'll continue to do it," answer.

But yes, I would like to implement either a mirrored array (perhaps
with the third disk as an offline backup) or a RAID-5 array with all
three drives.

Matthew


On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:47:34 -0700 (PDT), Tim Emerick
<timothyemerick@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I've been watching this thread and have a similar situation in place.  I have
> 2 80 gig HD's in place.  Nightly I cp my user files onto the second drive
> keeping a 5 day rolling backup.
> 
> Have you ever thought of putting in a mirror raid?    I don't think it's a
> big deal to pull out the second drive (which should be an exact mirror of the
> first drive), pop in the second drive and tell it to sync up.
> 
> Having not actually implemented a raid I'm sure I've over-simplified the
> process.
> 
> If this is not an option then no harm-no foul.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tim Emerick

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