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On 10/5/07, Richard Freeman <rich@××××××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Duncan wrote: |
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> > What I do is take the opportunity to redesign my partition layouts and |
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> > the like (altho this time I have most stuff on LVM, which should help |
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> > next time). |
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> This is good advice in general. If you have never used LVM look into |
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> it. Once your partitions are on LVM it is VERY easy to migrate them to |
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> a new drive. You can do it while the system is running as a matter of fact. |
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> Ditto for raid. I don't know that it is really essential in all cases, |
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> but I've got a mythtv setup with the better part of 1TB of storage, so I |
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> migrated it to software raid. It isn't worth the money to come up with |
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> an offsite backup solution for TV shows, but I'd rather not lose |
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> everything if one of my multitude of hard drives fails either. So I use |
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> RAID5 to cover drive failures, and I do offsite backups of selected |
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> files of higher value (a few GB). |
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In my case I'm very noise sensitive. I do a lot of audio work and |
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don't want additional hard drive noise in here. In my mind that rules |
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out multi-drive RAID and I guess I don't see how any form of |
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single-drive RAID helps if the issue is the drive doing bad. |
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Probably I'm not aware of all the value of doing all of that work. |
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Maybe there would be significant reliability gains but it's a subject |
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that is pretty far beyond me today. |
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I'm also has concerns that 1) the drive could go sooner than later |
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causing me to have more work getting the system set up again and 2) if |
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I do add some form of RAID that it will cause problems for the cloned |
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Win XP installation being it isn't there now. |
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And how does LVM work for Windows anyway? I thought that was a Linux thing? |
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Maybe everything Duncan said is right, and I'll give it some thought, |
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but my #1 worry is trying to make sure the system doesn't go down hard |
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and leave me with a week's worth of work getting Humpty Dumpty back |
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together again that I don't need right now. |
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Thanks all, |
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Mark |
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