[CentOS] Raid with one disk?

Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17 at duke.edu
Mon Dec 5 14:01:09 UTC 2005


On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 at 6:31am, Sam Drinkard wrote

> Is it possible to set up a single disk raid (kind of redundant to call a
> single disk an array) but I've got a single SATA drive in the machine
> not doing anything.  It's a 10k maxtor 74G drive, and what I really want
> is just to backup two home partitions.  I can always reinstall the OS,
> but the data can't be recovered that easily.  The mobo supports raid-0,1
> and jbod.  Suggestions?

Don't think of it as RAID, think of it as backup.  Do some scripting with 
rsync or use a package like amanda, and perform backups of your home 
partitions to the raptor drive.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University



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