In my experience, using lvm2 to mirror your disks should work for you and be the easiest to recover since each disk has a copy of the vg description, then vgscan will find your configuration for you. Skip using md unless you need multipath access to a device.
On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 9:36 AM Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 24 Mar 2023, Rich Shepard wrote: > > > Checking cfdisk for both /dev/sde and /dev/sdf shows both having free > space > > for the entire disk. > > A question for the professional sysadmins: having both disks in a mirrored > RAID1 array as a logical volumn fail, does it make sense to rebuild the > RAID, vgs and lv? > > Since a mirrored copy didn't save my backup history, perhaps I should use > only one disk for backp and save the other as a spare. > > Your professional opinion? > > TIA, > > Rich >
