Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:17:36 -0500 (EST) From: Mitch Collinsworth <mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu> To: "Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr." <bsder@allcaps.org> Cc: fs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RAID alternatives Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.51.0301211914580.12509@ori.ccmr.cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301211550060.6477-100000@mail.allcaps.org> References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301211550060.6477-100000@mail.allcaps.org>
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On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote: > In addition, full RAID 10 provides a very nice method for creating > backups. Shut down the system, pull one half the drives, put in all new > drives, and rebuild the array. Voila! Instant backup (and instant > recovery, if required). It's not instant backup if you have to shut down the system. Lots of fileservers do not have the luxury of daily shutdowns for backup. Filesystems that allow for snapshotting are much more useful in this respect. -Mitch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-fs" in the body of the message
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