Hello David, thanks for the response. I did exactly what you suggested with RAID 1 and LVM them together to create a large drive. It was fairly easy to accomplish with Ubuntu's installer.
However, Les Stott brings up a great point about RAID 5. I would like recovering from a failure to be possible. How I have it now makes it possible, but perhaps it isn't as easy as the RAID 5 option. I also like that RAID 5 gives me more space. I think that I'll have the time to experiment with setting both of them up. thanks for taking the time to respond! -Matthew David Nalley wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > I don't think the concern is so much that a client computer's drive and one > of > your backuppc box's drive would fail at the same instant, but rather what > the cost of one drive in the backuppc box's drive would be. > Loosing a single drive if you pool them all together with LVM means you loose > the entire logical volume, which means you have to start all backups over > again from scratch. That's too much of a waste of resources to me > (particularly if you are using rsync.) but that is just my perspective, it > may be perfectly acceptable in your environment, and is a decision you have > to make. > > If you go the RAID 1 option, I'd create two RAID 1 arrays and LVM them > together, or perhaps look at the RAID 10/0+1 option and put all 4 drives in > the same array. I still think that I would use LVM since it gives you some > flexibility in the future. Red Hat's new LVM guide is pretty decent, gives > lots of real world examples, you may want to check it out as well. > > Hope this helps, > > David Nalley > > > > > On Tuesday 04 December 2007 14:40:16 Matthew Metzger wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am building a server for BackupPC and I have a few questions >> concerning what is the best way to set up storage. >> >> I have one 80 GB IDE hard disk that will hold the operating system >> (ubuntu server), /boot, swap, et cetera. >> >> I also have four 500 GB IDE hard disks. I'm wondering what you would >> advise for the best way to configure them. I'm tempted to put them all >> in one lvm volume so that I can have 2 TB of storage. This is also the >> easiest for me to accomplish. >> >> I've heard some people say that RAID 1 should be used to create >> redundancy within the server. How important is this? The probability >> that a client computer's drive would fail at the same time as a drive in >> the BackupPC server is small. >> >> What is the best way to set up RAID 1 with lvm over four disks (if that >> is the recommended configuration)? >> >> I have read >> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/04/27/managing-disk-space-wi >> th-lvm.html >> >> thanks for your time and I appreciate any responses. >> >> -Matthew >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
