Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/3/2 Rob Beard <r...@esdelle.co.uk>: > > The idea I had was if this is possible, I could attach one of the drives > > externally via eSATA so it can be taken off site and in the event of a > > server failure this off site backup could be plugged in and the server > > could be back up and running in minutes rather than a good few hours of > > re-installation (I was thinking of having two external drives so they > > can be alternatively swapped every day). > > > > You'll need a script to re-add the disk into the array to start the > sync, and yank it from the array before being unplugged, which is of > course easily do-able with "mdadm". > > Of course as soon as you add the disk back into the array you're going > to cause a boatload of IO as the array resyncs from the internal disks > back out to the external one, and that's going to happen _every_ time > you plug the disk(s) in. > > Cheers, > Al. > Are you thinking of this as the only backup? Recovery of accidentally deleted files might be a bit fiddly if so.
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