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| Newer page: | version 2 | Last edited on Monday, March 22, 2004 8:47:41 am | by GlennRamsey | Revert |
| Older page: | version 1 | Last edited on Wednesday, September 18, 2002 3:03:00 pm | by PerryLorier | Revert |
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<yem> nice while it works..
<Remosi> yah
<yem> one server here is going on 18 months old on kernelraid
<yem> it has kept the system up under disc failure at least once
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+On my home office box the backups have become too large for writing to
+CDRWs so I installed a second hard drive and faubackup. Faubackup runs
+as a daily (ana)cron job and this works OK except that when doing the
+backup the machine becomes sluggish. Hence I'm thinking about using RAID
+1 instead. Browsing through the HOWTO's and docs on the web its seems
+that software RAID is a bit tricky to set up and is something that
+you should only do if you know *exactly* what you are doing. Given that
+a RAID card is quite cheap now it would seem that software RAID is a
+poor choice for the user who has better things to do than wrestle with
+the configuration of software RAID.
