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Re: Failed Software RAID


On Dec 31, 2005, at 1:50 AM, Julian Underwood wrote:


On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 00:59 -0500, Jacob wrote: 
Julian,

If you're trying to simplify the solution & reduce your workload. . .

I would forego the whole G4L part and simply buy a new drive and
restore from backup.

And to avoid such pain in the future, I would ditch the sw RAID and
buy a HW raid solution.

Jacob

Yeah. Problem is, backup is not so current for this client. For a
software RAID, the slices get counted 1,2,3 versus 0,1,2, is that
correct? I would REALLY like to be able to fix the broken RAID.
Unfortunately Apple doesn't sell 120GB drives anymore. Would anyone see
a problem taking any 250GB 7200 RPM hard drive and cloning over the
120GB volume to it, then putting it back into the XServe, and firing it
up?

Julian

That might work. This really drives home the problems with using a stripe in a server. Mirrors are great, but stripes are just begging for trouble. I've made customers sign a document before if they really insisted on a stripe that stated that I would not be responsible for any data loss and that they were overriding my advice as a consultant. Just bringing that document up has been enough to dissuade most people from using a stripe.

Josh

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Josh Wisenbaker, ACSA
http://www.afp548.com
Breaking my server to save yours.

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