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On Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2008, Duncan wrote: |
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> The root and rootbak partitions contain most of /usr and /var as well, |
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> basically everything that gets touched by ebuilds and the package manager |
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> including its data, so it all stays in sync. If I were doing it over, |
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> the only two things I'd do differently would be to have two rootbaks, so |
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> if the system crashed while I was writing the one backup and neither it |
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> nor the primary working root were functional, I could still boot the |
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> other backup, and I'd create my RAID using at least 5 spindles/drives |
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> (but go lower end on capacity per spindle), as writing to a 4-way RAID-6 |
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> is slowwwww. |
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and the more spindles, the higher the chance for a fatal disk crash. |
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