Hi Jdd:
My setup is not complicated at all.
well somewhat unusual, though :-)
I have M$N on one HD attached to the mobo
what win version? is this win using home and/or data?
I am running, at present, XP x32. Since M$N does not ship the 3ware drivers as part of the windoz install CD I do *not* install them. That way, M$N does not know what device is in the PC nor that it is a raid card. Hopefully, this is enough "security" to prevent M$N messing with my raid arrays... My linux system of course can access the M$N partitions just fine.
, a huge raid array (3ware) with
2 partitions: home and data.
what interface? (ata/ide, SCSI, sata?) what formating for partitions? ext3? if so they *are* linux partitions
The directly connected (sata drives) as well as the raid arrays are appearing as SCSI devices (/dev/sdX) as far as I can tell. I've been using reiserfs exclusively but am beginning to test out an xfs filesystem on a spare linux partition.
My linux partitions are on another single HD
you probably mean "root" (/).
I have separate partitions for /, swap, /tmp, (/home and /data are each on separate raid arrays) etc...
. The only irreplaceable data are on
home and 'data' partitions.
The only problem with backing up about 2TB of data is I need to get another set of drives and LVM or raid them to ~2TB as well. Seems too costly, but the alternative might be far costlier...
what kind of data? is that one only big file (database?) or a lot of small files?
The data partition has a fair number of large video files, but also contains many smaller raw data files images. Most of this is related to video and image processing work.
isn't it possible to backup them on usb drive? 1Tb drives are not that expensive
Yes it is possible. The home and data partitions together are ~3TB, though the total used space is just over 1TB. If I want to totally accommodate both partitions I need to setup about 3TB of USB backup storage or one USB drive per partition. Total cost about USD$500. Certainly doable. Vahe ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org