Les Mikesell wrote: > Angus Scott-Fleming wrote: >> Is there a port for BackupPC that will run on a FreeNAS >> box? http://freenas.org/ -- FreeNAS is a FreeBSD-based >> very-easy-to-set-up network-attached-storage box that >> makes it trivial to set up a box with RAID1 or RAID5 -- I >> got a box up and running in less than an hour, while I >> have never yet gotten RAID running on my Ubuntu boxes. >> > > Raid is pretty simple on Centos and all the underlying stuff should be > the same on ubuntu. For a raid1, make 2 matching partitions with > fdisk, > setting the partition type to FD. Then use a command like: > mdadm --create /dev/mdX --auto=yes --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sdX > /dev/sdX > with the X's replaced with appropriate numbers. Then make a file > system > on /dev/mdX and add the entry in /etc/fstab to mount it at boot time.
Gee, I found using anaconda's built-in RAID setup even easier. :o) Nils Breunese. P.S. Anaconda is RHEL/CentOS/Fedora's installer. I'm pretty sure Ubuntu's installer also handles setting up RAID arrays. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ 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/
