Lots of storage
Aug. 4th, 2007 05:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ciphergothIf I buy one of these: 
and five of these: 
and stick it all together using Linux software RAID, will that work as a relatively cheap (£370) 2TB RAID-5 storage array?
Will it be very noisy, and if so, should I be looking at getting one of these too so I can stick it in another room?
As you might imagine, I'm giving the whole question of backups a lot of thought at the moment...
and five of these: and stick it all together using Linux software RAID, will that work as a relatively cheap (£370) 2TB RAID-5 storage array?
Will it be very noisy, and if so, should I be looking at getting one of these too so I can stick it in another room?
As you might imagine, I'm giving the whole question of backups a lot of thought at the moment...
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Date: 2007-08-04 06:42 pm (UTC)Because it's mostly about web-scripts being edited, I've also got a cron job running 'rsnapshot' (for rsync diffs).
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Date: 2007-08-04 07:12 pm (UTC)I've got a server sitting on my floor which takes complete backups of a couple of remote machines and it has saved me more than once.
(Too often I've had backups which exluded too much, so I lost files, nowadays I remotely backup "/" ignoring only /proc, /sys, and /dev. I haven't lost a file I cared about for a couple of years now :)