on 2-17-2009 1:52 PM dnk spake the following:
Hi there,
I am currently setting up a server that will house my backups (simply using rsync).
This system has 4 X 500 gb drives and I am looking to raid for max drive space and data safety. Performance is not so much a concern.
Max size would be raid 5, max safety would be raid 10 or lvm over raid 1's
My experience with software raids in nil, so some of these may seem like pretty dumb questions.
I was thinking a raid 1 is probably sufficient.
Would it be best to raid 1 two drives each and LVM them together?
My next question would be about how to do this as I have never done a linux software raid.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html
http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2002/12/05/RAID.html
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