Re: system disk mirroring

[Gaby Vanhegan <gaby_(_at_)_vanhegan_(_dot_)_net>]

Ben Goren wrote:

> On 2004 Aug 12, at 9:21 AM, j knight wrote:
>  
>
> > There's really only one gotcha: if you're wanting to install the 
> > system onto the RAID array, there's some extra steps involved.
> >    
> I would question the real need to do this in the first place. Using 
> ROOTBACKUP=1 as described in daily(8) gives you pretty much all the 
> benefits of RAID for your root partition without the headaches. It's a 
> tradeoff *I* would make, though I'm sure others wouldn't.
>  
This is something that I had looked at a while back, for another 
client's server.  I was under the impression that it was a bit of a hack 
to boot from a soft-raid partition.  The final solution we're going to 
implement is to put / on a separate physical disk, which will be booted 
from, and run /var, /home and /usr from a soft-raid partition.  / will 
then be backed up to an offsite backup, allowing us to do a restore, 
should the / partition fail, withouth losing any customer data from the 
RAID drives.

Is this something that I could setup during the installation process or 
would I have to configure the RAID drives post-install then move 
everything over to them?

Gaby

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