[plug] Raid-5 recovery

[Brad Campbell]

Craig Ringer wrote:
>> 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 

Neat idea.. I might look at that when I get my SATA stuff going.

> 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.

Hmm 600mb of it is MPEG-2 Video and mp3 audio.. Not gonna compress much 
with gzip :p(

> 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?

OOoo yeah..

It's going to be worse when I crack the 1TB mark.
At least I don't have to back it up onto 360k floppies with MS-Backup :p)


Brad

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