Guillermo Rozas wrote: > That's not necessarily a bad choice, especially if you can't fit your > storage on a single platter, but you do lose that capability of having > a full snapshot on either drive. > > ZFS can do mirror configurations without problem. > Regarding faulting the RAID to take one of the drives as a snapshot: be > careful that reconstruction of the new drive puts a non-standard stress on > the drive that's still in the system (higher the bigger is the drive), and > it may increase the risk of it dying during the process, taking down the > whole system.
I've never heard of this concern before. It seems like an unlikely scenario, since the "stress" is simply reading the remaining drive. But in any case, if that were to happen, the failed drive would be just one of two copies of the data (the other being the one I had just removed), and the running system would still be healthy as well. paul =---------------------- paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 73.4 degrees) _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
