Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
>
>> You seem to suggest that I can start with a single drive installation
>> and turn it into a software RAID 1 setup. I want to verify that this is
>> what you are saying.
>
> No, what I'm saying is that you should build your installation on some
> arbitrary system somewhere; get it working (but not full of data); then
> boot your real server hardware with knoppix, set up the drives with RAID;
> then clone your installation onto the bare drives. Are you familiar with
> cloning an OS installation across a network via tar+netcat? It's pretty
> much the same thing as using BackupPC_tarCreate to generate a tar stream and
> send that across the network onto a drive somewhere else; except you run a
> tar command on the sending side instead of a BackupPC command.
The advantage of starting with knoppix would be its excellent hardware
detection at boot time. With a tar image you need fairly similar
hardware plus some tweaking to make it bootable.
An interesting variation might be a VMware image, but I'm not sure what
kind of performance you would get.
--
Les Mikesell
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