Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> - The reliability of external USB drives is very dubious in my experience.
> Perhaps I had a run of bad luck, but out of 4-5 different USB HDD setups
> that I bought within a 6 month period; I had problems with well over half
> of them. (Including a really ex
On 07/25 08:30 , Les Stott wrote:
> yep, noted. In all my setups backups run overnight and they've got a 12
> hour period to complete, so speed is not an issue, but may be if you
> have large data and a short time frame. Perhaps e-sata could come into
> play? have not played with that yet.
I've
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 07/24 06:47 , Les Stott wrote:
>
>> 2. Plug in an external usb drive, mount it as an ext3 wherever you like,
>> or go with hal which might auto mount it as /media/usbdisk
>> (p.s. in my experience firewire cards dont always have enough drivers
>> for linux
On 07/24 06:47 , Les Stott wrote:
> 2. Plug in an external usb drive, mount it as an ext3 wherever you like,
> or go with hal which might auto mount it as /media/usbdisk
> (p.s. in my experience firewire cards dont always have enough drivers
> for linux, and i dont think speed is an issue)
> 3.
Rob Owens wrote:
> I had an idea and wanted to get some feedback from you guys.
>
> I'd like to make an easy method for restoring large off-site backups in
> the event the host loses all of its data. The fastest way to do this is
> probably to send the physical hard drive to the place where the ho
On 07/23 03:15 , Rob Owens wrote:
> > No, what I'm saying is that you should build your installation on some
> > arbitrary system somewhere; get it working (but not full of data); then
> > boot your real server hardware with knoppix, set up the drives with RAID;
> > then clone your installation ont
On 07/23 03:10 , Rob Owens wrote:
> My goal is to be able to take my hard drive (operating system and pool)
> and install it in any other "spare" machine and have it operate. If I
> had a 3ware RAID controller in the original server, would I need a 3ware
> RAID controller in my spare machine?
Y
On 07/23 01:56 , Les Mikesell wrote:
> > - When one drive dies, the whole machine kernel panicking and locking up.
> > The data was still good on the second drive; but it required a site visit
> > to get things working again; and then another site visit to replace the
> > drive.
>
> That has
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 07/23 11:41 , Rob Owens wrote:
>
>>> Why do you need to remaster Knoppix?
>>>
>> Part of the reason is so that after I go through the work of setting
>> this all up, I can distribute a BackupPC-Knoppix cd that includes all of
>> my hard work -- so no
Les Mikesell wrote:
> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
>
>
>> In our experience, 3ware controllers make the drive replacement process so
>> much easier 90% of the time, that they more than pay for themselves in
>> reduced labor costs when things go wrong. Software RAID is false economy in
>> a c
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 07/23 12:50 , Les Mikesell wrote:
>> I've never seen anything go wrong with Linux RAID1 over 6 or so years
>> and dozens of machines and I've abused it with things like hot swapping
>> SCA drives and rebuilding the replacement, cloning machines by splitting
>>
On 07/23 01:12 , Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 07/23 12:50 , Les Mikesell wrote:
> > I've never seen anything go wrong with Linux RAID1 over 6 or so years
> > and dozens of machines and I've abused it with things like hot swapping
> > SCA drives and rebuilding the replacement, cloning machi
On 07/23 12:50 , Les Mikesell wrote:
> I've never seen anything go wrong with Linux RAID1 over 6 or so years
> and dozens of machines and I've abused it with things like hot swapping
> SCA drives and rebuilding the replacement, cloning machines by splitting
> the pair and letting both rebuild a
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
>
> What this comes down to is that I don't know if the Knoppix installer can
> handle software RAID. I do my best to avoid software RAID; it's too much
> pain when things go wrong, in my experience. 3ware is the only way to go for
> RAID. These are special circumsta
On 07/23 11:40 , Les Mikesell wrote:
> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> The advantage of starting with knoppix would be its excellent hardware
> detection at boot time. With a tar image you need fairly similar
> hardware plus some tweaking to make it bootable.
I'm not proposing that he shouldn'
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
>
>> You seem to suggest that I can start with a single drive installation
>> and turn it into a software RAID 1 setup. I want to verify that this is
>> what you are saying.
>
> No, what I'm saying is that you should build your installation on some
> arbitrary sy
Rob Owens wrote:
> Once that's done, then you have a hard drive installation that is
> portable from one machine to another. I consider this a huge benefit,
> because I can mail the hard drive to anybody who knows how to unscrew a
> computer case and have him start restoring backups. No Linux kno
On 07/23 11:41 , Rob Owens wrote:
> > Why do you need to remaster Knoppix?
> Part of the reason is so that after I go through the work of setting
> this all up, I can distribute a BackupPC-Knoppix cd that includes all of
> my hard work -- so nobody else has to do it again. I envision booting
> of
On 07/23 11:22 , Paul Fox wrote:
> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 07/23 09:22 , Rob Owens wrote:
> > > I've remastered Knoppix before,
> ...
> > ... At
> > that point you install backuppc to the Knoppix ramdrive (since it uses
>
> i suspect this is the step rob w
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> On 07/23 09:22 , Rob Owens wrote:
>
>> My idea is to run my BackupPC server on a hard drive installation of
>> Knoppix.
>>
>
>
>
>
>> I've remastered Knoppix before,
>>
>
> Why do you need to remaster Knoppix?
Part of the reason is so that afte
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 07/23 09:22 , Rob Owens wrote:
> > I've remastered Knoppix before,
...
> ... At
> that point you install backuppc to the Knoppix ramdrive (since it uses
i suspect this is the step rob was going to avoid by remastering.
paul
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On 07/23 09:22 , Rob Owens wrote:
> My idea is to run my BackupPC server on a hard drive installation of
> Knoppix.
> I've remastered Knoppix before,
Why do you need to remaster Knoppix? I would guess that you should just have
to find a way to install Knoppix to a RAID1 system*, then in cas
I had an idea and wanted to get some feedback from you guys.
I'd like to make an easy method for restoring large off-site backups in
the event the host loses all of its data. The fastest way to do this is
probably to send the physical hard drive to the place where the host
resides, via overnight
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