On 6/22/12 11:11 AM, dude golden wrote: > HI there, > > hope my email find you well, i recently order a server with below > configuration > > INTEL > 1x Quad-Core i5-2500 3.3GHz, 6M Cache > 16GB DDR3 > 2x 500GB SATAII > > then ask from my COLOCATION to install FreeBSD 8.2 or 8.3 with RAID 1, after > many times of fail in installation from colocation they said that we have > problem with RAID 1.we suggest them to play with different kind of RAID like > RAID 5 and they said as our requested server only have 2 HDD, its not > possible to set up RAID 5. > > now they said us that the only way for having backup of DATA in this > condition is set up a scheduled task to put back up of data in the second HDD > . > > > > now i really need to know if there is a only way for having data back up in > this condition or you have better idea according to your experience.also if > its the only way , would it be a good level of data security ? > > > looking forward to hear from your side soon. > > Regards, > > Smartelcom Team
Hi, Your colleagues are correct about the RAID levels, you can only do RAID5 with a minimum of 3 disks. Your available options with 2 disks are JBOD, RAID0 or RAID1. You obviously want RAID1. How have they tried to install the server ? I've had no problems ever installing 8.2 or 8.3 as a RAID using either gmirror, or hardware RAID. Does the server have a hardware RAID controller or are you trying software RAID ? Do you have remote console access to the server ? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
