Re: [Nolug] Backing up linux

RAID 10 (RAID 1+0) and RAID 01 (RAID 0+1) are different.

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Ron Johnson wrote:
> 
> Disks are *really* cheap.  Unless you are a cheap bastard or need
> 10TB with the speed that only jillions of 15K RPM 73GB spindles and
> a 4Gbps SAN with 64GB cache RAM can give you, no one should use
> RAID-5 anymore.
> 
> Especially if it's going to be SATA drives.  RAID-10 (or is that
> RAID 0+1?) is all you should think about.
> 
> On 02/15/08 13:40, 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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>> Puryear Information Technology, LLC
>> Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414
>> http://www.puryear-it.com
>>
>> Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers"
>>   http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices
>>
>> Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration
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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.
> 
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