[Tfug] HighPoint RocketRAID 100 and Linux

[Sam Hart]

> Are you now considering software raid again over the hardware raid 
> solution because of budget constraints?

I am. The system is primarily my desktop and staging server for web-work. 

> I know you said you didn't want lectures on backing up, but this is more 
> of a suggestion if you use software raid solution. You may already be 
> considering it.
> 
> Have you ever used LVM with raid as part of your backup strategy? It 
> offers considerable speed advantages over straight tape backups.

I am actually very new with RAID. I have used RAID systems before, but 
they have always come already set up. I've never had to do anything like 
this on my own.

My main focus is to get something that is cheap and easy that will allow 
me to backup my home system with a minimal performance loss. Since my home 
system has now become fairly crucial to a number of things (home-business, 
Tux4kids, etc) I need to start taking backing it up more seriously than I 
have.

I have used LVM before, but hadn't thought of it for my system (2 HDDs, 
one intended to be a backup of the other) because my system was so small 
(isn't LVM more suited for much larger systems with many more drives?)

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Sam Hart
University/Work addr. <hart@physics.arizona.edu>
Personal addr. <criswell@geekcomix.com>
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