Re: ssystem recovery strategy

Any specs, yet, on performance and reliability (of the mirror)?

This is kind of a kick-butt idea.

On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 12:13, Stephen Brown wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Tom Oehser wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone have a recommendation for IDE hotswap bays?
> >
> > What about getting the kernel to recognize the swaps?
> 
> We are using Kensington's StoreCase bays for the drives, and the Linux
> md raid modules to handle the mirror set administration.  We haven't
> automated anything yet -- all the critical volumes are mirrored, and we
> intend to tell the md module to break the mirrorset, power down one of
> the drives, pull it out and replace it with a blank one, then restore
> the mirrorset (we currently use this technique to clone the system disk
> when we bring up a new server, and it works well for that.  We already
> have a tape rotation for backups, but it's getting more expensive every
> day.)
> 
> Steve Brown
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