On Tuesday, March 09, 2010 07:10 AM, Jeff Sadino wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > Thanks to everyone who helped me to learn about RAIDs, starting at the > end and working backwards :) > > I brought my system back up, minus the raid0 partition that was > corrupted. My question now is what's the best way to back up my > server? Basically, I have one more (software?) raid1 array, a cluster > setup on 5 subnodes (but I don't see any of their data here, so prob > just all scratch and OS space), and then a hardware RAID controller > (10.54.1.100) attached to 2 raid setups (scratch, apps, and data as one > setup and then last week we added the shacks as a seperate 12TB array. > It came as a RAID, but I think we had to decouple it b/c our OS couldn't > read it), and then we have the computer with mounts referencing our main > Windows server (10.1.1.17), which is backed up by our Windows guy. > Should I use the empty shacks as backup space? /me in favour of multiple online 'backup' servers in separate locations. Forget tape or whatever else backup. Hardware for doing that is dirt cheap compared to tape libraries/drives. But I use ZFS with snapshots for this purpose so if you want or need incremental backups then you may have to look elsewhere...