Re: [RDD] mirror as-is or restore to new?

2015-03-17 Thread Cowboy
...@lists.rivendellaudio.org [mailto:rivendell-dev-boun...@lists.rivendellaudio.org] On Behalf Of Cowboy Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 8:55 PM To: rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org Subject: Re: [RDD] mirror as-is or restore to new? On Monday 16 March 2015 06:30:02 pm Wayne Merricks wrote: Every data

Re: [RDD] mirror as-is or restore to new?

2015-03-17 Thread Mike Price
@lists.rivendellaudio.org Subject: Re: [RDD] mirror as-is or restore to new? On Monday 16 March 2015 06:30:02 pm Wayne Merricks wrote: Every data recovery quote I had was in the region of £10,000+ to recover files which were useless without the database and everything else working along side

Re: [RDD] mirror as-is or restore to new?

2015-03-16 Thread Cowboy
On Monday 16 March 2015 06:30:02 pm Wayne Merricks wrote: Every data recovery quote I had was in the region of £10,000+ to recover files which were useless without the database and everything else working along side it. I've just spent the last 6 hours or so recovering a few files for

Re: [RDD] mirror as-is or restore to new?

2015-03-16 Thread Cowboy
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

Re: [RDD] mirror as-is or restore to new?

2015-03-16 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi, I second the never use Hardware RAID for anything important. Especially when nobody has bothered to back stuff up because its an ancient system that nobody understands but managed to clone onto newer hardware. I had a very bad 2 weeks doing post death data recovery on a high end

Re: [RDD] mirror as-is or restore to new?

2015-03-15 Thread Lorne Tyndale
Hi Chris, My first comment, if you're already at 800 GB, then you'll probably be wanting something bigger then 1 TB in short order. Having said that, there is merit in both ways of going about what you want to do. Option 1, adding a second hard disk and setting up a mirror. If you're new to