Rodrigo Barbosa <mailto:rodrigob at suespammers.org> tapped at Friday, May 26, 2006 3:15 PM: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 03:10:37PM -0700, Mark Schoonover wrote: >> Barry L. Kline <mailto:blkline at 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