From: Norman Schmidt <schmidt@naa.net>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: split RAID1 during backups?
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:35:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <435DEE69.8030605@naa.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1EUFcV-0005s3-00@toko.jab.org>
Jeff Breidenbach schrieb:
> Ok... thanks everyone!
Something from me:
What you should be able to do with software raid1 is the following:
Stop the raid, mount both underlying devices instead of the raid device,
but of course READ ONLY. Both contain the complete data and filesystem,
and in addition to that the md superblock at the end. Both should be
identical copies of that.
Thus, you do not have to resync afterwards. You then can backup the one
disk while serving the web server from the other. When you are done,
unmount, assemble the raid, mount it and go on.
Eg. /dev/md1 consists of /dev/hda5 and /dev/hdc5 and has a working fs on it.
/dev/md1 is mounted on /data.
umount /dev/md1
mdadm -S /dev/md1
mount -r /dev/hda5 /data
mount -r /dev/hdc5 /backup
do your backup
umount /dev/hda5
umount /dev/hdc5
mdadm -A /dev/md1
mount /dev/md1 /data
Please could somebody double-check or confirm this first?
Hope this helps, Norman.
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Dipl.-Chem. Univ. Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet
schmidt@naa.net Erlangen-Nuernberg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-25 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-25 3:37 split RAID1 during backups? Jeff Breidenbach
2005-10-25 4:07 ` dean gaudet
2005-10-25 8:35 ` Norman Schmidt [this message]
2005-10-25 17:51 ` John Stoffel
2005-10-25 19:20 ` Norman Schmidt
2005-10-25 18:04 ` John Stoffel
2005-10-25 18:13 ` Paul Clements
2005-10-25 20:05 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-10-26 18:15 ` Dan Stromberg
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-30 3:06 Jeff Breidenbach
2005-10-26 8:17 Jeff Breidenbach
2005-10-27 13:23 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-10-25 5:01 Jeff Breidenbach
2005-10-24 20:28 Jeff Breidenbach
2005-10-24 20:58 ` John Stoffel
2005-10-25 22:18 ` David Greaves
2005-10-24 12:07 Jeff Breidenbach
2005-10-24 13:26 ` Paul Clements
2005-10-24 18:55 ` dean gaudet
2005-10-24 10:57 Jeff Breidenbach
2005-10-24 11:22 ` Jurriaan Kalkman
2005-10-24 11:37 ` Brad Campbell
2005-10-24 19:05 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-10-25 4:30 ` Thomas Garner
2005-10-27 0:04 ` Christopher Smith
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