> I am trying to create backup servers out of the following specs: > P4 3.0Ghz > 1GB RAM > RAID0 - 750GB x 2 (SATA)
As it was said by others, RAID 0 may not be the right choice. Virtual tapes and tapespaning allows Amanda to extend a backup across several physical disks, so you don't need RAID 0. The only improvement that RAID 0 could bring you is speed to access the disk array, but then the limitation could still be network bandwidth rather than disk speed. RAID 0 won't allow you to add more disks in the server (at least without rebuilding the array), while you could just plug them in simply if it was not RAIDed, and from your configuration you need many more disks in the server. One last question, from what you said, you seem you want to have several servers, each backuping a set of clients. Why not havuing a single backup server, with enouhg disk resources to backup all your clients? It would be easier to manage I beleive. Bests, olivier
