[plug] Home Server LVM/RAID stuff

[Matt Kemner]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, quoth Keith Bawden:

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

And it won't help you if you have multiple disks die at once, for whatever
reason.

I had a 7-disk RAID5 array in my home server (an old DEC Prioris)

3 disks died at the same time.  Even RAID6 would not have helped me there.

Of course I have everything that was "important" on those drives :/

I still have no idea what caused those disks to all die at once, perhaps a
power spike or similar.

I now back all the important stuff up to a server at a remote location :)

(with snapshots)

Yay for rsync

 - Matt