On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 09:18:13PM -0400, Aaron Joyner wrote: > I'm not quite sure how much of your file sharing volume goes between > the Linux boxes, but I'm going to take a short assumption that the bulk > of the file sharing is done to the windows boxes. Start with LVM. Add > as many disks are you require, and make them (at least) a redundant > raid array of some sort (probably RAID1, optionally RAID5). Share via > Samba, and then layer on rsync rolling backups of the network shares > (done with LVM's snapshopts for consistancy), so that you can provide > the "snapshot" rolling-backup feature that's one of the more popular > driving features behind the network-appliance storage devices.
Aaron, Yes, I have been using RAID 1 on the existing machine for quite some time, and have recently been playing with LVM ( successfully too! ) as well. I am intending to move some of that technology to other applications ( clients ) now that I am more comfortable with it. Unfortunately, RAID or not, if you write bad data, or erase files from one half of the mirror, both copies are bad! Just like single drives. B-) > That would be my recommendation. > > Aaron S. Joyner Thank you, Aaron. Brian -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
