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From: scotthathcock@comcast.net
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Upgrading to Raid
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 21:46:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050901034637.38BC91B8BB@localhost.comcast.net> (raw)


I currently have an ASUS K8V Deluxe system with an 80GB SATA drive. It
used to have a old 10GB PATA disk for M$ dual boot. That disk died and
was interfering with boot, so it's in the trash. 

The dead disk reminded me of the pain I will suffer if I loose my linux
system. Even with backups of my home dir, which I'm not as good about as
I should be, a full fresh install would be a pain. Thus, I am
considering Raid.

Does anyone have experience with RAID on this Board? 
Is the Via or Promise controller better for this? 
Is there a good Howto on migrating from a non Raid disk to Raid? I
recall seeing one but can't find it now.
Am I wasting time and money? Should I just do a better job of backup? Is
there a resource on what to backup to allow a fast regeneration (or
duplication) of an existing gentoo system?

Finally, thanks for the great distribution. I use a commercial distro at
work and I am much happier with Gentoo. :)

Scott
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             reply	other threads:[~2005-09-01  3:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-01  3:46 scotthathcock [this message]
2005-09-01  3:59 ` [gentoo-amd64] Upgrading to Raid Nuitari
2005-09-01  4:18   ` Chris S
2005-09-01  4:34 ` Chris S
2005-09-01 14:54   ` Billy Holmes
2005-09-01  5:29 ` Kyle Liddell
2005-09-01  5:36 ` Francisco Perez
2005-09-02 10:02   ` Joshua Hoblitt
2005-09-02 13:22     ` Matt Randolph
2005-09-02 19:56       ` Joshua Hoblitt
2005-09-03  9:54   ` Florian D.
2005-09-03 20:45     ` Homer Parker
2005-09-04 17:16       ` Florian D.
2005-09-03  0:04 ` Florian D.
2005-09-03  1:24   ` Francisco Perez
2005-09-03  3:18     ` Nuitari

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