gary smith wrote: > > Hi Avi what I am looking for is a setup that is reliable and can > back up to other hard drives
If you're after a backup then use the drives for that rather than raid. Have a single drive to run the OS off and use the other drives to back it up onto. The closest a RAID comes to a backup is that it allows a disk to fail and your system to stay up. It doesn't do anything a raid normally does (like providing somewhere to get a config file as it was yesterday from) and it does add complexity. Generally you use a raid either to get faster disk access (by adding to the number of heads reading from discs) or to add resiliency (to allow a disk to fail without taking the system down). Generally, if you're the only user of a system a backup is much more effective use of a bunch of disks than a raid. > when I loaded proxmox all the lights on the drives light up and > showed up on loading but only one drive shows up in proxmox I don't > know what Raid the server was setup and I don't know how to find out > if it had been setup using raid I am trying to set it up as safe as > possible with out loosing to much speed sorry my language isn't very > tech wise You can see if it's using Linux software raid by seeing if the file /proc/mdstat exists. If it doesn't exist there's no software raid. If it does exist, the contents will give clues as to the raid configuration. For hardware raid you'll need to check what the hardware is, and that config will be in a raid card BIOS. I'd expect the proxmox installer to make it clear what it's doing with your disks, perhaps you need to click an 'advanced' button or something to see that? -- Avi _______________________________________________ Peterboro mailing list Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro
