Subj : To RAID or not to RAID?
To   : astark
From : Belly
Date : Wed Aug 18 2004 08:08 pm

  Re: To RAID or not to RAID?
  By: astark to Belly on Wed Aug 18 2004 08:20 pm

 > Id be interested in any info you can give me on how you did this. (os, scrip
 > etc). 
 > Anything you can give me would rock. You can reply via email if need be...

Unfortunately the server which ran all the scripts is no longer with us due to
its unlucky position in an electrical circuit formed between a cloud and the
ground during a tunderstorm. The lightning hit melted the power connector on
the motherboard...

It wasn't overly complex, believe me... The SMB shares were already in place, I
just wrote a shell script to mount the share on the other server, and rsync
between the local directory and the (SMB mounted) remote directory. I read the
rsync manpage to get the parameters, and just ran my script from cron. I'm at
work now, but I'll try to remember to see if the script is atill lying around
somewhere at home.

One more note of interest: IF YOU'RE RUNNING A RAID-0 ARRAY MAKE SURE YOUR
BACKUPS ARE RUNNING :)  Shortly the server on the other end died, one of the
drives in my striped array bit the dust. Boy was I pissed. I found a disk
cloning utility which was persistent in retrying read errors and managed to
copy the failing drive onto a good one... I put the new drive back in the
array, but lost/corrupted lots of songs.

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