[ILUG] Linux soft Raid death of hda

[Frank Murphy]

Conor Wynne wrote:



> Just configured a server for my wife's workplace running a poweredge
> with 2 SCSI drives configured with RAID1 and LVM for expansion. 

Might be beyond my budget, at the moment.
> 
> 
>>Whateve is done has to preserve the info already on md0 & md1
> 
> I assume you have TWO raid arrays then. If not then you have practically
> no RAID. 
> 
The info is safe just can't access at the moment.

> 
> RAID is not a backup. Its just for resilience. 
> RAID0 is worse than useless for resilience, RAID1 or RAID0+1 are best
> performance wise, RAID5 is cheapeast but slower. 
> 
It's my cheapo backup Raid 1.

> 
>>1: How can I set up the system so the O.S. drive is also cloned?
> 
> What do you mean exactly? 
> Conor recommends mondo for imaging hdd's, personally I think he has
> shares in them. Otherwise, you setup RAID1 (mirror of two drives).

Linux Soft didn't allow me to Raid 1 the hda.

> 
> 
>>2: A boot cd that can allow me operate the raid & smb shares as normal.
> 
> 
> This can be does with any rescue cd, you can even use the standard FC3
> bootCD --> "linux rescue", start networking etc.

How would it know what's in smb.conf or fstab, which was on dead hda.
> 

Frank

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