Re: Large Storage

["Alancc" <alan.cc@xxxxxxx>]

So if you had a drive go down under RAID 0 how would you recover this one
drive if the data had been stripped across several drives or have I
misunderstood how RAID 0 works.

Alancc

----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 10:49 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Large Storage


>
> > What OS ? I have a Tb rsync'ed over the LAN syncing up takes no
> > time at all.
>
> The "servers" are all running XP (since it's all domestic
then the drives
> and arrays are shared rather than having quotas and security set up -
I
did
> have it like that but it just wasn't necessary - so I use XP and then
can
> just remote desktop over to the servers if I need to do anything
locally
on
> them.
>
> > But you're right it's knowing whats crucial to be backed up : I
> > have a small
> > storage of 10G vital data that is mirrored over several servers.
>
> I do have a DDS4 DAT drive that I can use to archive off anything that
I
> consider to be really important - but given that most of the data is
> recreateable (it's just a matter of time, effort and boredom at
feeding
> DVD's into a couple of drives and ripping them) then in my case it was
more
> practical to just assume that a drive going down would result in x
amount
of
> work to recreate and take that as a known and accepted limitation.
>
> > Take it easy dude.
>
> Always do...
>
> Phil
>