thank you. i'm unclear on one point. do the raid disk need partitioning? best...jf
On Jul 2, 2007, at 8:11 AM, Bryan Forrest wrote: > Here's my thinking on your setup. You aren't going to have enough > space on a mirrored raid of two 320GB disks to match all the space > available on the first two volumes, but in reality, you don't need to. > > Mirror the two 320gb drives, creating a single mirrored 320gb volume > for backups. Schedule SuperDuper to backup your data from the original > two drives, excluding the boot volume. SuperDuper can compress the > data from the other volumes to most likely fit the remaining 355GB > (Volume 2 + Volume 4) onto the 320GB RAID. A compressed boot volume > isn't going to be much use anyway, unless you restore it to another > drive first. In the event of a catastrophic failure of a drive, I'm > sure reinstalling the Apps and OS are much less of a concern than > having to do data recovery for your pictures or projects. > > Hope this helps! > > Bryan > > > On Jul 1, 2007, at 11:33 PM, Jerry Freeman wrote: > >> i'm trying to setup a mirrored raid, to be 'smart' backed up and >> scheduled by superduper, and i'm confused. >> >> 1. will my setup work for mirrored raid, or do the volumes need the >> exact equivalent partitions on the raid? my two spare drives >> available for raid are 320G each, and the combined total of the >> volumes is 415G. do i have to re-partition drive-1: volume-1 40G + >> volume-2 30G + volume-4 250G = 320G total? that would be a bother. >> >> 2. do both drives on a raid need to be partitioned the same? >> >> my G5 10.4x setup: >> >> drive-1: 165G >> >> volume-1: boot 52G, >> volume-2: projects 113G >> >> drive-2: 250G >> >> volume-3: scratch disk 8G (not backed up). >> volume-4: photography-1 242G >> >> available drives for mirrored raid: >> >> drive-3: 320G >> drive-4: 320G >> >> tia. best...jf >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >> be July 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >> Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >> Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> > > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be July 24 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
