Hello, I'm planning on replacing an old fileserver that has a single 1T drive with something a little newer having 3T of space. I have two 3T drives and have installed OpenBSD 6.0 to both as a softraid mirror. Works well and I simulated a drive failure by shutting it down, removing a drive, and rebooting. The drive has been re-installed and it is now rebuilding the mirror. After 17 hours it is 24% complete, so it'll be about three days to complete. The system is:
AMD E2-3200 2.40 GHz 4G RAM 2 x 3T Seagate Barracuda 7200rpm SATA With this much disk space, should I be looking at another way of achieving data redundancy? The goal is to increase redundancy of the data and the mirror would be periodically backed up to another server in a different building. My only concern here is the suitability of the softraid mirror for a large filesystem. I've thought of using the second drive as a backup and rsync'ing it nightly, but then failure of the primary drive would mean more downtime before it's operational again. A long rebuild time isn't a major problem; just want to make sure I'm not overlooking a more sensible option. FWIW, I used the following info to get set up: https://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq14.html#softraidDI http://openbsd-archive.7691.n7.nabble.com/Large-3TB-HDD-support-td95308.html Thanks, -- Ian
