Re: RAID-1 as back-up

2005-06-05 Thread David Magda
On Jun 4, 2005, at 18:41, Karl Denninger wrote: Having an offsite copy is just good common sense. Best to make it an explicit comment. As the saying goes, common sense often isn't (common). :) ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: Re[2]: [lists] RAID-1 as back-up

2005-06-04 Thread Charles Swiger
On Jun 4, 2005, at 5:11 PM, Remo Lacho wrote: Please excuse my ignorance, but why would you use USB or Firewire drives on a production server? Firewire makes a really nice hot-pluggable I/O bus which works nicely with external devices. Your typical external Firewire drive is generally a

Re: RAID-1 as back-up

2005-06-04 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 04:57:52PM -0400, David Magda wrote: > > On Jun 3, 2005, at 18:50, Karl Denninger wrote: > > >As with all backup strategies (absent write-once media in SOME cases) > >if the > >media is PHYSICALLY connected to the machine and it is hacked it is > >possible > >for a hacke

Re: [lists] RAID-1 as back-up

2005-06-04 Thread John Pettitt
Remo Lacho wrote: >O > >>> >>> >>> >>Up to a point - beware of geom_mirror with USB and FireWire disks - it's >>temperamental at best and with my FireWire drives simple won't work >>reliably (panic during boot if a rebuild is needed and unrecoverable >>errors during rebuilds). I've just r

Re: RAID-1 as back-up

2005-06-04 Thread David Magda
On Jun 3, 2005, at 18:50, Karl Denninger wrote: As with all backup strategies (absent write-once media in SOME cases) if the media is PHYSICALLY connected to the machine and it is hacked it is possible for a hacker to scribble on THAT as well. This is no more likely, however, Or a voltage

Re: [lists] RAID-1 as back-up

2005-06-04 Thread John Pettitt
Remo Lacho wrote: >On 6/4/2005 at 12:26 AM Hans F. Nordhaug wrote: > > > >>Dear list, >> >>I would like to use RAID-1 as a back-up solution. If one of the disk >>breaks I would like my server to continue to run from the other disk. >>I have followed the mailing list for a while and read some h

Re: RAID-1 as back-up

2005-06-03 Thread Karl Denninger
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 06:36:34PM -0400, Alec Berryman wrote: > Hans F. Nordhaug on 2005-06-04 00:26:20 +0200: > > > I would like to use RAID-1 as a back-up solution. If one of the disk > > breaks I would like my server to continue to run from the other > > disk. > > Just as fair warning, you sh

Re: RAID-1 as back-up

2005-06-03 Thread Alec Berryman
Hans F. Nordhaug on 2005-06-04 00:26:20 +0200: > I would like to use RAID-1 as a back-up solution. If one of the disk > breaks I would like my server to continue to run from the other > disk. Just as fair warning, you should not rely on RAID as a 'backup' like you would rely on writing to removab

Re: RAID-1 as back-up

2005-06-03 Thread Karl Denninger
On Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 12:26:20AM +0200, Hans F. Nordhaug wrote: > Dear list, > > I would like to use RAID-1 as a back-up solution. If one of the disk > breaks I would like my server to continue to run from the other disk. > I have followed the mailing list for a while and read some howtos, > but

RAID-1 as back-up

2005-06-03 Thread Hans F. Nordhaug
Dear list, I would like to use RAID-1 as a back-up solution. If one of the disk breaks I would like my server to continue to run from the other disk. I have followed the mailing list for a while and read some howtos, but I'm not sure if this is possible (without doing all kinds of tricks when the