[Gllug] Server setup

[Martin A. Brooks]

George Wright wrote:

>How does one go about setting up a RAID-1 mirroring array between the 2 80GB 
>IDE drives? Do I install as normal on one drive then set up the RAID or do I 
>need to do it when I actually install?
>  
>

The disk partitioning tool will allow you to do this during the install 
process.  I'm not sure I'd recommened booting from software RAID, 
though, it could make recovery a little tricky.

>What would be the best way to set this up? Will it render the phone line 
>useless for incoming voice calls or faxes?
>  
>

pppd will give you a dial-in server. All voice calls will be picked up 
by the modem.  I seem to recall that there's some magic way of 
distinguishing an incoming fax call.


>Also, I'd want to use the server as some sort of network storage device for 
>backup of important data as it'll be the only machine with redundancy. Would 
>NFS be best or are there other better solutions out there that I could use?
>

The old maxim of "if you can't take it with you, it's not a backup" 
applies.  However you could share a chunk of the disk via several 
protocols all at the same time and let the clients machines use 
whichever is most comfortable.

Regards

Mart.

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