From: maurice <mhilarius@gmail.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Looking for the best way to do this
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:13:05 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E00DF31.2020406@gmail.com> (raw)
Good day, and thanks in advance for any ideas and advice.
I am working on a server.
The server is normally in a remote location, not outside accessible by
network,
and there is no easy method to do backups on it.
It is running Fedora 14
It has 2 hard drives at present, and there are 5 partitions on each.
From this we have 3 RAID1 md devices.
These are for /boot, /data and /
I wish to add a 3rd disk, for enhancing the safety of the data.
There is no space to add a 4th disk.
Things I thought of doing include:
Add 3rd disk to make a 3 disk RAID1
Make a RAID10, missing one disk.
Which do you think is the better means to enhance data safety / chances
of surviving a hardware problem?
One of the above, or an other configuration?
And, assuming I want to preserve the existing data, what is the best way
to do this?
--
Cheers,
Maurice Hilarius
eMail: /mhilarius@gmail.com/
next reply other threads:[~2011-06-21 18:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-21 18:13 maurice [this message]
2011-06-23 1:20 ` Looking for the best way to do this Leslie Rhorer
2011-06-23 19:23 ` Iordan Iordanov
2011-06-23 22:06 ` maurice
2011-06-23 22:55 ` Phil Turmel
[not found] ` <4E03CBC3.1080001@gmail.com>
2011-06-23 23:41 ` Phil Turmel
2011-06-24 16:17 ` Iordan Iordanov
2011-06-24 16:35 ` maurice
2011-06-24 16:59 ` Iordan Iordanov
2011-06-24 17:11 ` maurice
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