I'm with Jerry here - recovery is a snap, and you never need to setup the cron job, or verify that it ran correctly. Also, if you use LVM you can resize the partitions on the fly, and there's no need to have a particular layout chosen right now. You can use RAID 1, have 1TB of space with, say, 100GB allocated, and then grow partitions reactively as your data usage grows. This way you can always add an additional partition if need be. (Having different apps store data on different partitions means they can't cause each other disk-space headaches)
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Jeremiah Bess <[email protected]>wrote: > Not true. RAID 1 is instantaneous mirroring. rsync runs only when you set > it to. RAID 1 is really easy to set up and reliable. > > > Jeremiah E. Bess > Network Ninja, Penguin Geek, Father of four > > > On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 20:10, u4david <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I would set up firts harddrive: >> >> >> and then second hard drive set up us a mirror of the first drive . >> use rsync,cronjob. >> >> This way no need for raid. >> But have backups at your finger tips. >> and if the first disc fails just reconfigure the mirror as "master" >> and adjust boot grub options and caboom back to original(last backup >> version of mirrored rsynced copy) >> >> >> On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Kari Matthews <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hello, >> > I have a customer who wants a new server. I convinced him to go with >> Linux >> > instead of Windows. He then asked at the end that I put 2-1TB drives in >> the >> > server. I assume the second is for storage b/c they deal with pretty >> large >> > files. >> > In your opinion, what should I do with the second drive? Should I put >> Linux >> > on both drives? I was going to do a data partition on the first drive >> ... >> > if I did that for both, that would be 4 partitions. What is the best >> way to >> > handle this? >> > I know this is a rather silly question, but I am unsure how to best >> utilize >> > the space on the 2nd drive. It's tempting to put it in an external >> casing >> > and just use it as a backup drive. I don't know. >> > Opinions welcome, since you're all brilliant. TIA. >> > ~kari >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> > Group. >> > To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> > To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] >> > For more options, visit our group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> > >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users >> Group. >> To post a message, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit our group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup >> > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > -- Daniel
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