Re: [Nolug] Backing up linux

Well, I kind of assumed a really fast network. I guess at 100Mbit/s it
doesn't matter.. ;)

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Dustin Puryear wrote:
> RAID5 is okay so long as you aren't trying to backup a huge number of 
> hosts at the same time due to RAID5's inherit performance issues. For a 
> small to medium sized network my guess is you would be okay.
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> Chris Jones wrote:
>> We usually use dell so we'll most likely be using a perc with raid5.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Mischa D. Krilov" <rossum@gmail.com>
>> To: nolug@nolug.org
>> Sent: 2/15/08 12:44 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Nolug] Backing up linux
>>
>> You probably want to strongly consider RAIDing your backup machine. I
>> don't have any recent suggestions for what kind of RAID card to use,
>> though.
>>
>> Mischa
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