[CentOS] Raid with one disk?

Joshua Baker-LePain
2005-12-05T14:01:09Z

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.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University