Re: [cobalt-users] hard drive 61 revisited

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 04 September 2002 20:20, jale@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >You should stay with a 5400rpm drive and not use the 7200rpm drives.
>
> Any particular reason, just curious?

power and heat

>   But I have another question - I use some pretty slick IDE RAID
> controllers on 2000 systems; I can take a running IDE drive and create a
> mirror of it without any type of source-drive reformat, try that with a
> SCSI drive (I've never seen a system that can be made into an
> after-the-fact RAID).

> Has anyone ever tried to use such a controller to make a backup system
> drive? For the price of a drive, I could take it out of the RAQ, connect it
> to this controller with another drive, using the BIOS based utility I could
> "theoretically" make a mirror backup of it.

Just use dd, put a second drive in the RaQ and dd it once in a while,
or dd it once and then use rsync to keep it up to date.

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Gerald
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