Vreme: 10/11/2011 04:43 PM, Bade Iriabho piše: > Thanks guys, Paul you make very good points. Noted... > >>> 1. You have a server in a secured server room on a rack (is there any > need >>> and advantage to having system encryption in this particular case) > >> Only if there's requirements from above... or if you're going to be >> pulling drives as backups, say, and taking them out of there. > > Very interesting, Your response just gave me another question :) If I have > system encrytion on a server with RAID (dont think the type matters, but > lets say RAID 5) and hot-swappable drives and one drive fails. What happens > when you replace the drive, how do you handle rebuilding the data on the new > drive with system encryption? are there online resources/links for handling > rebuilding the data on new drives when the server/PC already had system > encryption. Or are my questions/thoughts on this way of course. As I understand it, RAID is lower lever then partition, and encryption is partition based, so RAID will not care what you have above, it will do it's job regardless. -- Ljubomir Ljubojevic (Love is in the Air) PL Computers Serbia, Europe Google is the Mother, Google is the Father, and traceroute is your trusty Spiderman... StarOS, Mikrotik and CentOS/RHEL/Linux consultant