Ryan Dagey skrev den 2013-07-09 19:02:
We have an office Gentoo server that I want to configure to run backups on an external USB drive.
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well most problems comes from bad hardware usb bridges, drop bridges that dont support 4TB sata, and if you need good sata drives use some that is designed for nas disk usage, dont use desktop harddisks for backups
well here i have qnap ts-419p+ where 2 of the 4 drives went mad in one week, i am still in progress to move all data from raid6 to another 2 3TB disks in a xyxel nas 325
so if you make backup on regulary weekly on multiple disks its not on concern if one disk dies with the backup
but if backup should be safe are amazon-s3 considered ?, can be done with amanda, i just not have checked this yet, or regulary use flexbackup
usb bridges works well if you just remember to get usb 3.0 compatibel ones, and keep away from the one that only support upto 2TB harddisks
my zyxel nas, and qnap all use software raid just like gentoo so even if my nas boxes dies, i can access content on the drives just with gentoo, all i need is raidtab file to get it restored with gentoo
32bit vs 64bit is not relevant for mdadm :) my qnap is arm based it even have mc
