Re: RAID Recovery...

["Anurag Jalan" <a_jalan vsnl com>]

Hi James,

I burned my 1st Linux box on Jun 12 on a machine *exactly* like yours ...
I meant to use Redhat 6.2s software RAID ... but what with all the
unfriendly
documentation, I formatted only the first of my 2 SCSI drives with fdisk---
4 partitions /boot, /, /home and SWAP .... in the hope of implementing
software
RAID later ..

Now i have Apache-PHP-MySQL, FTP, SAMBA, DNS, NNTP , MASQ,X-VNC ,
Sendmail/POP3
running happily but the thought of a server crash gives me nightmares ...
even though i back up
to a SCSI tape drive regularly .. our VC has set us some really challenging
targets !!

How best can i utilise my 2nd HD ( sdb ) for RAID ( ???  ) or otherwise ? I
really need an
answer to this .. please !!

Best regards

Anurag
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Q. Stansfield" <jstansfield trader ca>
To: "Redhat-Install-List" <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 6:16 PM
Subject: RAID Recovery...


>
> Okay here's the situation... We built a RedHat 6.2 system with two 9.1Gb
> SCSI HDs, each on their own controller and created RAID 1 partitions for
> each of the partitions we were using (Swap, /boot, /). RH installed no
> problems. Everything worked as advertised. I was very surprised to see
RAID
> working so easily on Linux, and am now considering doing it for myself at
> home. Our network admin wanted to test the RAID recovery. So we powered
down
> Linux, removed one of the drives to simulate a failed HD and booted. Linux
> didn't skip a beat. It asked us if we wanted to change the configuration
> since we were now missing a drive. >