[plug] Home Server LVM/RAID stuff

[Keith Bawden]

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 18:03, Trevor Phillips
<trevor.phillips at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now, really, only about 1/4 of my data I really need redundancy on.
> You know, important stuff like photos, mail, tax documents, etc... All
> the rest is typically regainable (ripped CDs/Video), or I wouldn't
> shed too many tears over losing. So a full RAID1 config is way
> overkill. Yes, disk is cheap, but the Wife won't necessarily buy that
> argument. -_^
>

RAID is not a backup solution. It will faithfully let you "sudo rm -Rf /" ;-)

RAID will typically buy you performance and/or fault tolerance. If
neither of these are required you could dedicate one of your disks as
a backup medium and commit periodic backups to it. Googling will help
you out here. I'm assuming a tape drive is not hanging off your home
server.

Regards, Keith