also sprach Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> [2011.04.27.1507 +0200]: > > I think a safer alternative would be to do what the OP proposes > > -- that way you always have one safe copy not part of the RAID > > in case something messes up.... > > You need that anyway, although starting from scratch it doesn't > matter since you have nothing to lose. When you were trying to > convert an old 2-member set to 3, you should have failed/removed > one of the existing drives (at least logically) until you had > added the first external and then rotated it offsite, after which > you would always have the working spare. There always is a danger > that the current sync will hit an error on the source leaving the > whole set unusable, although this should be greatly reduced when > the source is a 2 member mirror.
There's also drdb, which provides RAID1-over-the-network. It seems like an excellent way to maintain an offsite copy of the backup topdir. -- martin | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ "security here. yes, ma'am. yes. groucho glasses. yes, we're on it. c'mon, guys. somebody gave an aardvark a nose-cut: somebody who can't deal with deconstructionist humor. code blue." -- http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/armadillos.txt spamtraps: madduck.bo...@madduck.net
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