[mythtv-users] Linux software raid question

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Thu Jun 5 17:24:33 UTC 2008


Carl L. Gilbert wrote:
> Getting it running is 1/2 the battle.  Having a recovery strategy is the
> other 1/2.  Once you get that, then you should have confidence, not
> before.  Not saying you don't have one.  But your text above is
> highlighting only the setup part and not anything about recovery.

With any RAID system your main recovery strategy should be a good
backup.  RAID is mainly about protecting your uptime, not your data.  It
will keep your system going if a drive dies, but if you get a corrupt
filesystem or delete the wrong file the RAID array will faithfully
duplicate the problem across all of the drives...


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