I was running about 3 firewire drives in a jbod config for a while, but just started to have some problems with then on boot, where one was a little dodgy and then linux wouldn 't reboot complaining that one drive was missing..... But on the whole it worked fine for me.... And this would mostlikly be a Firewire800 device also.....
| Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
17/02/2006 04:10 PM |
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On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 22:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Les,
> After a bit of thought I worked out a slightly different way
> of doing it... I could use Linux as the base os, running vmware,
> running a Linux Virtual machine..... The whoe reason is that on my
> Linux box, when installing it I have to set up linux (Not that hard),
> Configure the Gigabit adaptor (A bit touchy at times), install webmin,
> install nagios, install monarch (To configure Nagios), install
> backuppc, configure apache for authenticate for Backuppc and Nagios
> and Monarch, setup vnc server so I can vnc to it.... all up it can
> take about a whole day to re0build the box. I also want to get a Lacie
> Biggest disk (2TB) firewire drive for the pool, and having this as a
> vm would alow me to move it to a different machine REALLY REALLY
> easily. I could also copy the vm to the Lacie drive as a backup incase
> the whoe machine when caput!
I like the idea but I'm not sure I'd trust a firewire drive
as the main archive. I've been trying for a couple of
years to make a firewire drive work as a RAID1 mirror
along with a matching internal IDE and while it works well
enough to sync a copy when the machine isn't busy, if
I leave the mirror active during backups it will have
errors that kick it out of the raid or crash the machine.
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Les Mikesell
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