[Gllug] RAID Partitions

[John Hearns]

On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 17:14, Amias Channer wrote:

> 
> I was hoping to be able to pull a drive and make a quick backup from it because the 
> Raid Volume will be too big to put on DVD-R , i was thinking of using an ide harddisk .

I'm surprised no-one has commented on this.
To me, this is just such a bad idea.
Mirrored RAID disks are for redundancy - pulling one out to back it up
gives me the fear.

Look at LVM and snapshots.
All servers these days come with gig ethernet.
Use network backup, starting from a simple rsync up to using
Amanda www.amanda.org
Bacula www.bacula.org
Arkeia www.arkeia.com
Legato www.legato.com



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