On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 at 6:31am, Sam Drinkard wrote
> Is it possible to set up a single disk raid (kind of redundant to call a
> single disk an array) but I've got a single SATA drive in the machine
> not doing anything. It's a 10k maxtor 74G drive, and what I really want
> is just to backup two home partitions. I can always reinstall the OS,
> but the data can't be recovered that easily. The mobo supports raid-0,1
> and jbod. Suggestions?
Don't think of it as RAID, think of it as backup. Do some scripting with
rsync or use a package like amanda, and perform backups of your home
partitions to the raptor drive.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
