On Sat, 21 Aug 2004, Lyle Giese wrote: > I used software raids and want to get away from them. I really really > like Microlite's BackupEdge tape backup software. BackupEdge does not > work with a software raid, only a hardware raid. > > The second kicker was that the Promise (or any other) hardware IDE raids > are considered software raid to the Kernel. And are NOT supported with > the new 2.6.x Kernels...
This is NOT generally true. Many of the embedded Promise controllers, built into the motherboards, are detected as separate devices. > My experience with IDE in raid arrays is less than stellar and will be > trashing them as I rebuild servers. I have had several instances where > one drive fails and the entire array falls over as the kernel struggles > to recover from the loss of a drive or the error messages. I have seen > this with Linux generated arrays and with the Promise IDE raid cards. > Besides the performance of the Promise parallel IDE raid sucks big time. Well, the Promise cards suck in general. That's not Linux's fault! :) > With the excellent tape software above, I don't think I really need > them anyway. BackupEdge will generate a bootable CD-Rom that will > install your last backup on bare metal after a major malfunction. Here is another vote for MicroLit's Backup Edge. -- Vice President of N2Net, a New Age Consulting Service, Inc. Company http://www.n2net.net Where everything clicks into place! KP-216-121-ST _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users