[tcb] Re: [OT OT] Re: Backing up that Server (no bus content)
- From: Will <evilscientistboo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:16:56 -0500
Go raid 5 and use zfs.
I just bought three blade stacks for one project all running solaris with a
10tb clarion array.
If this setup had one more fan it would hover.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gerald V. Livingston II <gerald.tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 5:48 PM
To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [tcb] Re: [OT OT] Re: Backing up that Server (no bus content)
I just stuck 4 x 147Gig 80 pin SCSI drives in the machine. Right now I have
them set up as a 270Gig RAID 0+1 (2 striped pairs mirroring each other).
I'm considering RAID5 but want to be able to squeeze all the speed out of
this that I can because I will have all my web pages and databases on this
set. The problem with this setup is that I have to add drives in matched
pairs if I ever need to grow the RAID.
I have 12 drive bays available. 2 will be used by the '/' file system
(73Gig drive that will be RAID1 mirrored when I get another) and the other
10 are available to fill up with the 147 Gig drives as I can afford them.
Staying with the RAID 0+1 will give me about 675Gig total (5 drive sets
mirrored). With RAID5 I could get just over 1 TB with 8 hot drives and 2
spares.
The RAID 0+1 set is mounted as /home and will have symlinks like
"/var/www-->/home/www" and "/var/lib/mysql --> /home/lib/mysql".
Besides the 12 hot-swap SCSI ports the machine also has 4 SATA-150
(non-hot-swap) ports that I plan to put 500Gig drives on in a RAID5 for
nearly 1.5 TB with one spare. Those will be for media that I don't mind
losing (video and audio).
Yes, these are all in the server, nothing external.
Gerald
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:12:46 -0500 (CDT) Eric Woodall <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> That's really close the the unit I have at home.
> Mine is the Infrant ReadyNAS.
> Right now I have 4-200 gig drives in it running RAID 5 (560 gigs after
> overhead).
> After you get one of these, you won't ever want to not have one.
>
> Trey Jung said:
> > this is the bomb.... I'm looking to go completely paperless plus put all
> > my
> > music , pictures and movies on line....
> >
> > http://www.thecus.com/products_over.php?cid=12&pid=32
> >
> > Hot swap drives and autobackup......
> >
> > Trey
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Gerald V. Livingston II" <gerald.tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 7:27 PM
> > Subject: [tcb] Re: Rain in Houston? (OT) (No bus content)
> >
> >
> >>I can go swimming though. ;-)
> >>
> >> I'm rebuilding my personal web server. 4+ years of work toast because I
> >> wiped the backup drive in preparation for doing a clean full backup
> >> because
> >> I had ordered new drives and planned to transfer everything over. About
> >> 10
> >> minutes into copying files for the new backup the main drive bit the big
> >> one. I wasted 2 days trying to recover it.
> >>
> >> All that's left is my old personal site from 4 or 5 years ago that I had
> >> saved on one of my home machines.
> >>
> >> Supposed to borrow a 4-wheeler to go look at the property. Going to pay
> >> someone to brush-hog the new "garage" property the first time since I
> >> have
> >> no idea what's under those weeds. I'd hate to tear up a borrowed
> >> tractor.
> >>
> >> The pictures are down until I get the web site working again.
> >>
> >> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:58:52 -0500 Denis <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I hear that it might rain in the Houston area today. I don't guess it
> >>> would be a good day for Gerald to work on his property.
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