Hi Mark, If I were to decide to go RAID1, would there be anything about either of the drives in a RAID1 configuration that would prevent their being swappable? I've never set up RAID1 before, but maybe it would be worth looking at - and then I could do logical backups (diff/tar) right on the primary/hda drive (which would also be RAIDed to the secondary/hdc drive anyhow). I've got tons of space at the moment so this might make sense for me.
Michael Coffin, VM Systems Programmer Internal Revenue Service - Room 6527 1111 Constitution Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20224 Voice: (202) 927-4188 FAX: (202) 622-3123 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Post, Mark K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 8:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cloning i386 Hard Drives - Like DDR Which is exactly what Michael asked for, and what he'll get with using "dd." I tend to agree that a software RAID will probably serve Michael better than running "dd" every night. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Ledbetter, Scott E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 7:45 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Cloning i386 Hard Drives - Like DDR RAID1 protects against physical disk disaster, but not logical problems. For example, if your database is corrupted, with a RAID1 scheme it is corrupted on both copies. Scott Ledbetter StorageTek
