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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RAID over Firewire
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:56:23 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44FD8207.2030502@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44FC830D.2020007@sauce.co.nz>

Richard Scobie wrote:

> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>
>>
>> It should work, but I don't like it... it leaves you with a lot of 
>> exposure between backups.
>>
>> Unless your data change a lot, you might consider a good incremental 
>> dump program to DVD or similar.
>
>
> Thanks. I have abandoned this option for various reasons, including 
> people randomly unplugging the drives.
>
> Rsync to another machine is the current plan. 

At one time I was evaluating doing RAID1 to an NBD on another machine, 
using write-mostly to make it a one way process. I had to redeplot the 
hardware before I reached a conclusion, and it was with an older kernel, 
so I simply throw it out for discussion.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979


      reply	other threads:[~2006-09-05 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-22 23:35 RAID over Firewire Richard Scobie
2006-08-22 23:35 ` Gregory Seidman
2006-08-22 23:56 ` Martin Schröder
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.56.0608230832170.6721@lion.drogon.net>
2006-08-23 21:27   ` Richard Scobie
2006-08-24  6:11     ` Gordon Henderson
     [not found] ` <200608231510.26160.Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de>
2006-08-23 21:28   ` Richard Scobie
2006-08-23 21:34     ` Mike Hardy
2006-08-23 22:06       ` Richard Scobie
2006-08-24 10:27 ` Francois Barre
2006-09-04 17:41 ` Bill Davidsen
2006-09-04 19:48   ` Richard Scobie
2006-09-05 13:56     ` Bill Davidsen [this message]

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