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On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 9:38 AM, KH <gentoo-user@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> Mark Knecht schrieb: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> 3) Wife's new desktop |
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>> I want high reliability |
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>> The most important task of this machine is to keep data safe. |
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>> Thanks, |
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>> Mark |
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> Hi Mark, |
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> For me it sounds like those points just don't fit together ;-) |
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> Regards |
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> kh |
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<Smiling broadly...> :-) Yeah.. Well, keeping my wife's data safe |
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keeps me happy. :-) |
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So the chassis and drives for this 1st machine are on order. 6 1TB |
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green drives. Now I just need to decide what sort of RAID to use. I |
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don't need much speed writing so I'm thinking maybe a 3 drive RAID1 |
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setup with a hot spare managed using mdadm and then LVM on top of it. |
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The main backup data will be coming from another machine I'm building |
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that runs a new i7 980x 12 core processor with 24GB of DRAM. That |
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machine will run 5 copies of VirtualBox/Windows 7 using 2 cores + 4GB |
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DRAM for each, leaving 2 cores and 4GB for Gentoo as the host OS. Each |
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Windows instance crunches numbers 24/7 and needs to be backed up once |
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a day with each backup being about 20GB. I'll move approximately 100GB |
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across the network each night to the 1st machine at least once a day, |
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possibly more. This data needs to be very safe so once every week it |
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goes offsite also. |
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Other than that the 1st machine will also be a MythTV backend server. |
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That's a pretty light load hardware wise but uses a little computing |
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muscle to do commercial detection and the like. |
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And then yes, my wife can use it as her main desktop as most of the |
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above work takes place overnight with Myth being in the evening and |
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backups of machine #1 occurring at 4AM, etc. |
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- Mark |