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Perhaps I should endeavour to answer a few other questions too.. |
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>Does anyone have experience with RAID on this Board? |
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No, however it's the same as other on-board raid controllers, they are |
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sudo raid, in that they are Windows software based driver driven. |
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There was some support for them under 2.4, but not very well and |
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certainly not for SATA - plus you want to use libata with built in sata |
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support. |
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>Is the Via or Promise controller better for this? |
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well you won't use the built in raid function so it doesn't matter. If |
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you're talking which has better SATA support, I'd go for Promise. |
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>Is there a good Howto on migrating from a non Raid disk to Raid? I recall seeing one but can't find it now. |
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well if you're using linux software raid (lsr) then you can just tarball |
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your whole system, build your raid and extract it, re-do your bootloader |
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and you're done. |
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See forums.gentoo.org there are lots of posts re raid. |
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>Am I wasting time and money? Should I just do a better job of backup? |
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depends - can you afford downtime. if the answer is no, then go raid 1 |
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or higher. |
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if the answer is yes, then perhaps save your money, invest in a hdd and |
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usb 2 / firewire drive and backup. |
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use rsync for incremental backups. u can also backup other pcs over the |
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network. |
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this also gives you the ability to recover deleted files and versions, |
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which raid does no (unless you setup your raid with CVS or subversion) |
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>there a resource on what to backup to allow a fast regeneration (or |
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>duplication) of an existing gentoo system? |
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it's linux! so just boot to a livecd, tarball your entire drives and |
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mounts, then extract to your new hdd setup. |
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