From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 24 01:28:06 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 757B516A4CE for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 01:28:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from server.rucus.ru.ac.za (server.rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.115.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E531543D1F for ; Mon, 24 May 2004 01:28:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oxo@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 54291 invoked from network); 24 May 2004 08:27:37 -0000 Received: from shell-em0.rucus.ru.ac.za (oxo@10.0.0.1) by server-em0.rucus.ru.ac.za with QMQP; 24 May 2004 08:27:37 -0000 Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 10:27:37 +0200 From: John Oxley To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040524082737.GA29727@rucus.ru.ac.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: disk recovery X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 08:28:06 -0000 Hi, I have a personal server with 400Gb of hard disks in various shapes and sizes. I don't have enough money for redundant disks, and I would like to know what the most efficient way of making sure my data doesn't get lost, in case of a hard drive failure. The best would be for some sort of recovery if a disk goes south for the winter. On this note, what's the best way of recovering data when a disk does go bad. -- /~\ The ASCII ASCII stupid question, get a EBCDIC ANSI. \ / Ribbon Campaign John Oxley X Against HTML http://oxo.rucus.net/ / \ Email! oxo rucus.ru.ac.za "Personally, I'd rather pay for my freedom than live in a bitmapped, pop-up-happy dungeon like NT." -- Thomas Scoville