On Sat, November 7, 2009 20:14, L. A. Walsh, Tlinx Solutions wrote: > > I couldn't find a way to do this. I wanted to read > some PC-formatted disks but the Perc6 wouldn't give > me a clean mount. > > I took this to mean that any backups I made from my > PowerEdge would only be readable on another LSI > controller. Since I don't have LSI controllers for all > of my PC's, I took this to be a bad thing. I.e. I > bought a 3rd party SATA card for my PE, and am doing > backups to an external box and just running software > RAID to it. At least the disks will be readable on > any SATA PC controller. >
I don't follow your inference. What sort of backups are you making? Certainly you wouldn't be able to move your physical disks except to another LSI RAID controller and have any chance of importing the RAID volumes, but even image/device level backups could be restored to appropriately sized partitions on another machine/disk scenario, and I would guess that you're taking backups at a higher layer than that, e.g. lvol or filesystem/file level. The fact that the disks are in a RAID is basically "invisible" behind the PERC for any backup scenario I can think of. They just look like disk partitions to an OS. But I may be missing something about what you're doing. regards, j. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
