[Wolves] Hard Disks and backups

[Chris Procter]

Thanks,

> > Can Linux do disk mirroring out of the box 
> Yes.  See http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html

Ah I had forgotton the HowTo's. Some nice bedtime reading for me :(


> > Does Linux support HP Travan tape drives?
> Yes.  I think it's the ide-tape driver, if your drive's an IDE.  Dunno
> about parallel-port travans.  I think they're supported, but I wouldn't
> swear to it.

Excellent. We have one of each, a IDE and a parallel (and maybe a SCSI as
well!), so I even have a choice!

> IME the people who have drives go ape on them are usually the
> same people all the time - I think it may be more to do with the owners
> than the drives themselves... ;)  YMMV of course...

Cool, duel cheap mirrored drives it is then.

> > Anything else I should take into consideration?
> You may (probably will) have difficulty in getting that old BIOS on the
> (S7?) mainboard to recognise drives that big.

Very good point, hadn't thought of that one. I was hoping to repurpose an
old machine that was heading to the skip, but I can steal a better one from
the desktop pool if I need to so I can 

So it looks like I am good to go. A bit of scripting and I'm away. 


Thanks everyone.

chris




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