Re: your mail

[John Eisenschmidt <jweisen@eisenschmidt.org>]

Dave,

I use IDE RAID at home for my web/mail server. I have (2) 40GB IDE drives in
a
RAID 1 config. I'm going to be replacing them with (2) 120GB drives soon. I
use3
Ware RAID controllers which work great under OpenBSD. They have 2/4/8 Channel
controllers so you can support up to 8 drives in RAID 0/1/5 configurations.

I also have a DDS-3 tape drive I backup to every night. On top of that,
before
my backup I generate a tar ball of my home directories and website into the
filesystem in case I screw something up and I need to replace it immediately.
Ia
lso use cvs so I if it's code I've screwed and I've committed my changes I
canus
e cvs to back it out. All in all, the whole setup was inexpensive and as
redundant as I could possibly want personal stuff to be.

You might want to look into /altroot while you're waiting to get RAID. In the
end, RAID helps insure high availability, backups insure your data is there
when you need it.

Good Luck,
John


Unless the Voices are Mistaken, dave.burgess@us.army.mil
(dave.burgess@us.army.mil) Wrote:
> Hi,
> I use OpenBSD 3.0 for a simple file server.  I am looking for some
> basic advice reguarding an upgrade in progress.  Currently,  I have
> been using 2 hard drives in a box that has all my important
> information.  One drive is for storage and the other is for backup.
> Basically I mirror the drives about once a week by hand.  No, I am not
> nuts...lol, this solution is only temporary until I finish building my
> box.  I plan on buying 2 more drives....which will make 4 IDE hard
> drives (WD 40g 7200) same size and model.  Also 4 IDE 5 1/4 removable
> bays just to have a place to mount them in the box (these are
> relatively inexpensive).  So the next step is to choose between a RAID
> controller dev or PCI IDE controller dev.
>
> 1.In your opinion, witch (of the two) would be the most practicle for
> some sort of automatic backup solution?
> 2.Is RAID going overboard or is the difference in the prices worth
> going ahead and buying a RAID controller card?
> 3.Is there any information of some importance that I may have left
> out?
>
> Dave

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