On Tuesday 04 September 2012 15:20:26 Paul Tader wrote:
> > The second MD1200 will be used to backup the first, using
> > BackupPC and for other storage purposes.
> >
> > As I won't know the storage requirements for the "backup
> > partition" and they will probably change over time anyway. I was
> > thinking of using LVM for it. So how to partition the MD1200 for
> > LVM. I don't want to put all 12 disks in a RAID5 and put a LVM
> > volume on it. Can I split it into 2 RAID5 and have a LVM volume
> > spanning both.
>
> Just a thought about the backup volume.
>
> Because it going to be used for backups and your retirement
> (congrats!) I would configure one partition and no volume
> management on top. Why? Because backups are like insurance
> policies. That are not fun and no one reviews them, but when you
> need them, you really hope that everything is in order. So you
> don't want the next admin to find out several months or years down
> the road that the backup software ran out of space and has been
> failing to back anything up for the previous few months.
>
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Thanks to Gotz, Blake, Paul and Nate for your advice.
I was pretty happy with the split RAID 5 for the NFS partitions on the
first MD1200.
I think I'll go with the simple solution for the backup MD1200. A
single RAID 5 encompassing all 12 disks probably with 2 hot spares.
Put an ext4 on top of that without the complexity of LVM.
Thanks,
Tony
aside Paul, unfortunately my retirement is not voluntary. It's due to
a spinal cord injury but such is life ;-)
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