So a question for the stupid and slow like me. is it possible to install a raid system under Ubuntu gnome desktop ver 8.04
I have not yet looked online, as I only have a dial up connection which is flakey where I live Regards Chris T On Thu, 2008-10-16 at 09:04 +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > On Thu 16 Oct 2008 22:45:18 NZDT +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote: > > > Well, you can restore the OS from an install CD easily enough, and as > > long as you've got a list of installed packages, you'll be good to go > > quickly enough. > > Uhhm, > > > Having said that, I don't have any customer servers that aren't on > > RAID1 for their OS, because no-one wants to waste time restoring from > > backup, or reinstalling :-) > > exactly. I can be without computer for the number of days it takes to > get a new disk, then spend 2h installing Linux and anything up to X to > configure it again the way I had it. Or I can take a slightly older disk > from a previous computer, or buy another smaller disk, put it in as > well, and remain mostly operational (and fully for email etc) all the > way. There's just no comparison. Mount the non-raided disk partitions of > the two disks as /data and /biggerdata, use one for your collections and > the other for on-disk ISOs of your install media or latest backups. > > Raid doesn't do away with the need for backups, but the hassles it saves > are enormous. A fortnight ago I ran badblocks etc and the works on one > disk while keeping on working on the other disk. No problems, just a few > reallocated sectors, so hot-add it again. Zero downtime. > > Volker >
