on Mon, Apr 22, 2002, hanasaki (hanasaki@hanaden.com) wrote: > I guess my main two goals are: > - 100% hardware ide raid Many solutions available. > - Ability to go to a new card and not need to do a tape restore While appreciated there are several options: - Some hardware does support array swapping. I've upgraded between major versions of 3Ware, but only after checking with tech support. - Backups are not optional. If you're restructuring your storage, best practices requires you have a current, verified, backup image on hand. - There are several backup alternatives. Tape is one. Networked archive, or local archive, are others. In our case, we keep both network backups, and aquired a 120 GiB drive for the express purposes of (1) providing alternate storage while a RAID array was tested and rebuilt, and (2) providing backup from which the array could be restored. Cost of storage was ~350, cheap insurance given the value of the data (4x80 GiB array, RAID5, ~50% utilized). If you're planning on making an array transition without backups, I strongly discourage this. There are too many things that can go wrong, and you have no safety net. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? NPR: Radio for between the ears: http://www.npr.org/
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