Hello, I am building a server for BackupPC and I have a few questions concerning what is the best way to set up storage.
I have one 80 GB IDE hard disk that will hold the operating system (ubuntu server), /boot, swap, et cetera. I also have four 500 GB IDE hard disks. I'm wondering what you would advise for the best way to configure them. I'm tempted to put them all in one lvm volume so that I can have 2 TB of storage. This is also the easiest for me to accomplish. I've heard some people say that RAID 1 should be used to create redundancy within the server. How important is this? The probability that a client computer's drive would fail at the same time as a drive in the BackupPC server is small. What is the best way to set up RAID 1 with lvm over four disks (if that is the recommended configuration)? I have read http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/04/27/managing-disk-space-with-lvm.html thanks for your time and I appreciate any responses. -Matthew ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
