Is it possible to set up a single disk raid (kind of redundant to call a single disk an array) but I've got a single SATA drive in the machine not doing anything. It's a 10k maxtor 74G drive, and what I really want is just to backup two home partitions. I can always reinstall the OS, but the data can't be recovered that easily. The mobo supports raid-0,1 and jbod. Suggestions? -- Snowman -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051205/75217002/attachment-0002.html>
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 at 6:31am, Sam Drinkard wrote> Is it possible to set up a single disk raid (kind of redundant to call a > single disk an array) but I've got a single SATA drive in the machine > not doing anything. It's a 10k maxtor 74G drive, and what I really want > is just to backup two home partitions. I can always reinstall the OS, > but the data can't be recovered that easily. The mobo supports raid-0,1 > and jbod. Suggestions?Don't think of it as RAID, think of it as backup. Do some scripting with rsync or use a package like amanda, and perform backups of your home partitions to the raptor drive. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
On 12/5/05, Sam Drinkard <sam at wa4phy.net> wrote:> Is it possible to set up a single disk raid (kind of redundant to call a > single disk an array) but I've got a single SATA drive in the machine not > doing anything. It's a 10k maxtor 74G drive, and what I really want is just > to backup two home partitions. I can always reinstall the OS, but the data > can't be recovered that easily. The mobo supports raid-0,1 and jbod. > Suggestions?Really for RAID, you want identical disks. Better solution would be to just archive important data to the drive on a semi-regular basis. as for raid on just one disk, it's not a belt&suspenders type scenario, it's a "wearing two belts" scenario. There's no real point, because if the drive fails, you're screwed just the same. -- Jim Perrin System Architect - UIT Ft Gordon & US Army Signal Center
On 12/5/05, Sam Drinkard <sam at wa4phy.net> wrote:> Is it possible to set up a single disk raid (kind of redundant to call a > single disk an array) but I've got a single SATA drive in the machine not > doing anything. It's a 10k maxtor 74G drive, and what I really want is just > to backup two home partitions. I can always reinstall the OS, but the data > can't be recovered that easily. The mobo supports raid-0,1 and jbod. > Suggestions?Snowman You can set up raid1 on a single disk if the intent is to add another disk later on. When you add the second (or third) disk run mdadm and get the disk recognised in to the "array" Else as other have suggested rsync in cron will do an easier job of backing up on regular basis and will take less than a minute if run it regularly, say half hour. -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux