On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Chris Weisiger cweisiger@bellsouth.netwrote:

Im not so much concerned about the os not being on a raid system. I am really concerned about my data, music, pictures,docs, etc.

True, the data is generally more important than the OS (or hardware - you can buy more).

I run a minimum os centos 5.9 install anyway so it would take long to reload the os if i had to.

BUT do you _really_ want to reload the OS and have to tweak config files again? Especially if you do not have the OS on a raid volume, back at least /etc/ up nightly or weekly (whatever fits your scenario) so you have at least some config files to go off of.

There's a fellow on the Gentoo Forums that has a signature that says: "Computer users fall into two groups:- those that do backups those that have never had a hard drive fail."

You might be lucky, but you won't want to get caught if your luck to drys up! :)

-----Original Message----- From: John R Pierce Sent: 3/5/2013 6:45 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] Software RAID complete drives or individual partitions

On 3/5/2013 4:27 PM, Mark LaPierre wrote:

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The question is why are you using raid at all?

indeed. the primary justification for the "R" in RAID, Redundant, is high availability. having the OS on a non-raid volume completely violates this. RAID is most definitely NOT a substitute for backups.

-- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast

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