On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:24:48 -0600, Brian Donaldson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I built two identical Windows servers, both with 500GB of hard drive > space. I just spanned the hard drives in each machine to create one > logical 500GB drive in each. This way I can easily add additional > space to both machines without destroying the existing data. so you're using something like LVM to create a single 500Gb partition across the drives in each machine? this gives you a machine backup, but if one of your drives fails won't you loose everything on that machine? i'm guessing that most likely you won't have one drive in each machine fail at the same time... but, is there a safer solution? would a RAID system for backup help prevent the 'two drives fail, one in each machine' scenario? ----------------------------------------------------- a 'whole lotta' GMail Invites available Please Email me OFF-list only... _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users