On Monday 16 March 2015 01:47:56 am Lorne Tyndale wrote: > For Option 2, this would be pretty straight forward. Install Linux (the > broadcast appliance) as a mirrored / RAID setup, install Rivendell then > restore your /var/snd and your database. And as long as you use the > same machine name and IP address you'll be back up and running in no > time. While you might not learn as much about the inner workings of > Linux, in some ways this may be more valuable to you as you will learn > how to restore a Rivendell database and audio files from a backup and > get the system back up and running.
Since he mentioned an LPFM, this is the option I would recommend. One can learn on their own time. When a station is down, and your audience is ( permanently ) leaving, is not the time to learn the quickest best way back on the air. > I will mention unless you're using a system with a high-end RAID > controller card, I'd recommend going with the Linux software-based RAID > setup as opposed to some of the RAID setups they have on some > motherboards. HEAR ! HEAR ! > The reason? Aside from the fact that a lot of the > onboard RAID's only seem to work with Windows, if something happens to > fry your system's motherboard, if you've used the Linux software RAID > then you can install your hard disks in another system and it'll still > see your RAID array. Not to mention that should you lose hardware and one disk, the remaining disk can most often be read on/by most any modern linux. > If you use an onboard / hardware based RAID then > you're stuck looking for something with an identical chipset. Often worse ! I've seen ( too often ) where even identical chipsets identical controllers will not read ( or even recognize ) disks created by another. Hardware RAID is strictly for performance, not data security. Linux software RAID can be set to e-mail or otherwise notify you when something goes worng. Most hardware RAID, you know nothing, until all is catastrophically lost. -- Cowboy http://cowboy.cwf1.com Am I ranting? I hope so. My ranting gets raves. _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list Rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org http://caspian.paravelsystems.com/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
