Rodrigo Barbosa mailto:rodrigob@suespammers.org tapped at Friday, May 26, 2006 3:15 PM:
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On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 03:10:37PM -0700, Mark Schoonover wrote:
Barry L. Kline mailto:blkline@attglobal.net tapped at Friday, May 26, 2006 2:56 PM: I'd like to know how things went with software raid when you've lost a drive in a mirror or RAID5. The times that's happened to me, I could never recover the partition - had to always restore from tape. After that point, it was hardware only. Software RAID works fine, as long as there's no problems.
Never had a problem with that. Always worked fine for me. Had at least 3 different cases like that so far. Always recovered flawlessly.
Hmmm, maybe it was user error on my part? I lost a 2TB system system built on md, and then again with a 250GB system. It was tough getting 2TB off of tape in a quick manner! :) Ended up doing disk to disk backups, and staying away from software raid. Hardware raid really isn't that expensive these days, even for large 16 drive systems.
Mark