[Gllug] Restore RAID0 /var

gvim gvimrc at googlemail.com
Wed Aug 26 13:34:21 UTC 2009


John Winters wrote:
> 
> Yes - just buy yourself another hard disk (or pair of hard disks) and
> restore /var from your most recent backup.  You do take backups don't you?
> 
> That sort of configuration makes me wince.  *Why* exactly is /var spread
> over two RAID0 volumes?
> 
> John

So it is possible. Others seem to disagree. /var is configured this way because I want to do some testing of MySQL and PostgreSQL performance for a web application which will have a lot of backend data to search on a regular basis. It's Linux software RAID at the moment but I'd be using a raid card once it goes live. I'm not worrying about data loss right now but need to know for the future if I can restore just /var from a backup if the disk with /boot, swap, / is still OK.

gvim
 
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