From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAgnW-0001bQ-MO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 04:35:35 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j814VrfC006201; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 04:31:53 GMT Received: from mail.velocitynet.com.au (mail.velocitynet.com.au [203.17.154.99]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j814VpkL025419 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 04:31:52 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.velocitynet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E3AD97C194 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:34:14 +1000 (EST) Received: from mail.velocitynet.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.velocitynet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11714-04 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:34:13 +1000 (EST) Received: from [192.168.45.75] (71.19.168.202.velocitynet.com.au [202.168.19.71]) by mail.velocitynet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0589697C18A for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 14:34:12 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <431684E3.60505@internode.on.net> Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:34:43 +1000 From: Chris S User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050805) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Upgrading to Raid References: <20050901034637.38BC91B8BB@localhost.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20050901034637.38BC91B8BB@localhost.comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at velocitynet.com.au X-Archives-Salt: 626e2fe1-52a7-48e1-b68a-db8a9733fab5 X-Archives-Hash: bb39a7c3b5a92c5a02d0474ccefdeeca Perhaps I should endeavour to answer a few other questions too.. >Does anyone have experience with RAID on this Board? > > No, however it's the same as other on-board raid controllers, they are sudo raid, in that they are Windows software based driver driven. There was some support for them under 2.4, but not very well and certainly not for SATA - plus you want to use libata with built in sata support. >Is the Via or Promise controller better for this? > > well you won't use the built in raid function so it doesn't matter. If you're talking which has better SATA support, I'd go for Promise. >Is there a good Howto on migrating from a non Raid disk to Raid? I recall seeing one but can't find it now. > > well if you're using linux software raid (lsr) then you can just tarball your whole system, build your raid and extract it, re-do your bootloader and you're done. See forums.gentoo.org there are lots of posts re raid. >Am I wasting time and money? Should I just do a better job of backup? > depends - can you afford downtime. if the answer is no, then go raid 1 or higher. if the answer is yes, then perhaps save your money, invest in a hdd and usb 2 / firewire drive and backup. use rsync for incremental backups. u can also backup other pcs over the network. this also gives you the ability to recover deleted files and versions, which raid does no (unless you setup your raid with CVS or subversion) >Is >there a resource on what to backup to allow a fast regeneration (or >duplication) of an existing gentoo system? > > it's linux! so just boot to a livecd, tarball your entire drives and mounts, then extract to your new hdd setup. -c -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list