On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 02:24:02PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 16 June 2005 10:52, Cody Holland wrote: > >I'm a newb to Amanda, and would like to backup everything to a > > server running Raid0. I'm sure this is very possible, I just > > cannot find any docs on it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > However, under recovery situations where you may be doing a bare metal > rebuild, I'd be a bit spooked of a raid as there is a possibility > under those total disaster conditions, that the raid may not be > available without a lot of pre-configuring of the md driver.
I'd be more worried about using a RAID-0 device to store my backups: loose any one disk and the volume is toast, and each disk in the stripe increases the likelyhood of a failure. Compared to that, having to configure a software RAID driver to access a pre-existing volume when rebuilding the OS on the server is a mere annoyance.
