On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 10:35:57 CET, Sumaya1960@xxxxxx wrote:
> Hi agian,
>
> I am very sorry for bothering all of you!
> BUT I lost all my Data once and I will make sure that this time it
> will not going to happen again!
>
> So 2 short questions:
>
> 1. external USB-Disk with as raw block device as 'external backup
> device'? ( FAQ 2.2 (2))
> Is that OK?
If you have a header backup, that already covers some problems.
If you add a full backup of the raw LUKS device, that protects
you justr as much as a regular fullbackup does. You just cannot
compress that backup compared to a regular one.
> 2. Can I use a Hardware Raid 10 with 4 SSD's?
> I will use raw disks as well with no other format and no other
> partition. I will configure the virtual drive on the host (adapter)
> side. Is this possible or would you recommend another setup on the
> hardware raid?
RAID10 is something pretty obsolete and it has worse reliability
than RAID1 and the speed-advantage does not matter much today.
Better use RAID1 with larger SSDs or RAID 6.
BTW, you can meaningfully mix normal HDDS and SSDs in a Linux
software RAID1 and you can use more than 2 drives in a RAID1
under Linux software RAID. I have a page on how to do that here:
http://www.arnowagner.info/hybrid/
What I currently uses is one SSD and two notebook HDDs for
important data in a 3-way RAID1 (on partition level, but
works the same for full disks). Unless all three fail, the
data is good. Of course, I have backup. LUKS goes on-top
of that RAID.
For reading, this is as fast as the SSD. Writes are buffered
in memory anyways. Unless you need high write-performance for
writes larger than the free memory, this is the ideal set-up.
> Thank you so much and again, I am very sorry for my stupid questions!
Don't worry. The only propblems are lazy questions where
people have not bothered to find things out. You obviously
have.
Regards,
Arno
> I just want to make sure, that everything is considered!
> I will use ASCII character Set to setup the pass-phrase, that is clear.
>
> Thanks a lot to everyone!
>
> Best wishes!!!
> Susu
>
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