The main issue with using RAID instead of backups is that it doesn’t protect against corruption, software bugs, or human error. While there are some cases were restoring to last weekend’s known-good state isnt’ adequate or appropriate, those are few and far between. OTOH, if a new RC build, for example, breaks the device driver for your ethernet port, RAID will faithfully make the new, useless configuration redundant.
I run RAID at the moment, because the disks running pfSense are ancient and I expect them to die someday. I would also like a scheduled backup to a tertiary system so that I can continue to function while I – someday – rebuild a new firewall. -Adam Thompson athom...@athompso.net [Sorry for top-posting, I’ve now confirmed that it’s impossible to avoid when using Outlook 2010 with HTML-formatted email.] From: Bao Ha [mailto:b...@hacom.net] That depends on what your intent really is. If you are after redundancy, setup gmirror: http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Create_a_Software_RAID1_%28gmirror%29 Voila, instant RAID 1. How is ataraid ("fake" raid) compared to gmirror? I think the main disadvantage of ataraid is that it is tied to a specific chipset. It is difficult to recover the disk if moved to a different systemboard. But, for redundant purposes of a firewall, you just want to keep it alive until it is replaced. I don't think we really want to reuse the disks.
