On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 03:44 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The Saturday 2007-07-07 at 15:02 -0700, Brandon Carl wrote: > > > I recently installed a IDE RAID card (Syba Ultra ATA IDE card SILO680) in my > > linux box and mirrored one of my drives (250Gb) to another 250Gb drive. When > > this was done, I tried to boot into openSUSE 10.2 and it kept stalling at > > "waiting for /dev/hda1 to appear." I then decided to just try and boot from > > my original hard drive, and it stalled on "opensuse hangs runaway loop > > modprobe binfmt-ffff." I thought that was very odd, so I took out the RAID > > card and tried to just boot from my one hdd, and it worked, thankfully. > > > > Now I am wondering if there is a software alternative to RAID 1 that i can > > use > > with my existing hard drive. I have about 100Gb of irreplaceable data under > > the "/home/spleeyah/" directory, which is on a seperate partition from the > > "/" > > directory. > > > > I would like to be able to just copy this drive over to the other one and > > then > > set it up as a RAID 1 configuration, but I cannot find any information about > > how to set this up using Yast or any other tools. > > I found this tutorial: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html > > but > > when I try to find "raidtools" in my software management, it doesn't show > > up. > > This is an internet installation with my repository set as: > > ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/. > > I think you got it wrong. > > To create a raid 1 setup, first you need to empty disks, or two empty > partitions on two disks. Next you create the raid, and finally you copy > over the data. > > However, if what you have is a lot of important files, it is way safer to > have two separate disks (better three disks), and simply copy everything > from one to the other, then disconect (and power off) or at least umount > the second. Notice that if on a raid setup you delete something or have a > bad software crash both mirror copies will be damaged. Raid doesn't > protect your valuable data from all mishaps: only a few kinds of mishaps, > like some hardware failures. > > Ie, a good backup procedure is safer than just raid.
I've never used RAID but I was under the impression that RAID 1 and disk failure was terminal, but the ones that use parity drives allow for the rebuilding of the data drive if one gets hosed. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
