Thanks Reco, yeah that RAID6 looks pretty robust. I will read more about it in the future. When I type cat /proc/mdstat, I get:
Personalities: unused devices: <none> Thanks Deloptes, the Borg backup looks very promising and I think it might actually best fit my needs. I will check it out! Thanks Felix, for the quick reply. I actually know the difference -- just mental lapse, it was late, and I accidentlly said stripping, though I meant mirroring (raid1). I have been using it for years, and while not a bad "thing," in retrospect, not sure it actually meant my critieria (eh, who knows, maybe it did), but now I have a more clear use case, basically to have a clean backup. I was using RAID1 as a "pseudo" backup, which I guess kind of worked, but I should use a specific backup solution. Thanks everyone. Once I can get anything off one of these two drives, I will then switch my current setup to 1 drive (8TB), with an attached 8TB drive that will be be backup --weekly, or whatever. On 29.12.20 09:36, basti wrote: > On a file server in a production environment I would prefer raid 6. > > Am 29.12.20 um 08:45 schrieb Felix Miata: >> Thomas A. Anderson composed on 2020-12-29 07:58 (UTC+0100): >> >>> I have been "using" mdadm to run software raid1 (stripping) on a file >>> server i have been running. >> RAID 1 is two devices that are mirrors of each other, redundancy, with some >> loss >> in speed. Loose one device, and you still have all your data. >> >> RAID 0 is striping. One device failing means all data lost from two devices, >> but >> twice as much space as RAID 1, and some extra speed. >>