On 2008/01/03 01:29, Erik Wikstrvm wrote: > The preferable way to solve this would probably be to use two disks but > that is not an option for me. So I was wondering if it is possible to > instead split the disk in two parts, the first is used to install > OpenBSD on, and the rest is split in two and setup in a mirror > configuration using RAIDframe or something similar. If this is possible, > will it buy me any additional protection against dataloss, or is it more > likely that my disk crashes all together?
It wouldn't be more likely that the disk _crashes_ by doing this, and it may give _some_ protection against _some_ failure modes. It also gives new and exciting ones to take their place. > One of my biggest worries is, since it will act as a > file-server which will contain stuff with some emotional value, data- loss. How about just making a second ordinary FFS partition (no ccd/ raidframe/softraid magic) and just rsync the files across using cron? For the situation you describe, that will give some protection against a few extra common failure modes (e.g. accidentally deleted files; look at --link-dest to keep files from a couple of days while, for the most part, only using inodes not storage capacity) and this simplifies recovery from certain other types of problem. It would be better to copy the data off the machine, though. Can you use "dump | ssh" (maybe piped through something else to encrypt the data), or use rsync/smbclient/something else to copy the relevant data to another machine, possibly over an internet connection?
