[plug] Raid-5 recovery

[Craig Ringer]

> If someone could suggest a cheap way of backing up 720GB of data I might 
> sleep easier at night.

2 x 300GB maxtor hard disks in RAID0 or configured as two LVM PVs. Make 
a giant disk image, then be happy.

http://www.maxtor.com/en/products/ata/enterprise_applications/maxline_ii/index.htm

Alternately, depending on the content of your main storage you might be 
able to get away with one of them and pass the data through gzip. This 
may or may not be slower.

I'm planning on popping 3 of these drives into the POST's storage server 
soon, as we're outgrowing our current 3x120GB RAID5 array.

It really is a pain backing up the kind of storage that not even 
long-tape SDLT can handle, isn't it?

Craig Ringer