[geeks] Big Damn File System....

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Well, attempt two at a backup system is on the way.  At one time my zip
drive was a decent choice, and I did regular backups withit.  I just
stopped when I could no longer fit the important stuff on 3 zip disks.

I don't think that I can fit enough drives in my (at least not without
taking out the zip drive, and I don't have anyplace to to put it really)
fileserver for a raid 5.  What I might do someday(perhaps this fall) is
invest in an external scsi tower (or convert the existing Sun 511 case to
hold more drives), a few cheapish SCSI drives, and a used Raid5 controller
(those things can be had for under $100 on ebay!!!).  MP3s will always
stay on cheaper IDE solutions, but I would like to get my data to
something more fool proof.

A UPS would also be a good idea one of these days.

--
Joshua Boyd

On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Kris Kirby wrote:

> On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> > Personally, I just upgraded my file server to a "whopping" 32gigs (30gig
> > data drive, 2 gig boot) in a P75.  Still don't have a good backup system
> > yet.
> 
> ... Which is precisely why you use RAID5. :-) I had the misfortune of
> loosing one hard drive of a two drive stripe set. The resulting MP3
> rebuilt took about two weeks, four-to-six hours a day; eight hours a
> day on the weekend. Rebuilt it with a software RAID5. On a AMD-K5/75. (Why
> K5? 'Cause, it cracks RC5 keys faster than the Pentium 90.) Machine can
> only get about ~1.5 MB/s-~3MB/s, which is fine for MP3 playback.
> 
> Don't let the Napster folks get you down. Having just encoded ~112 CDs of
> audio to MP3, I can tell you that Napster (what it used to be) is a *huge*
> savings of CPU time, if you can deal with the fact that you can't screen
> the quality of an MP3 until it's downloaded. (I'm fascist: 256Kbit/s.)
> 
> OTOH, my file server used to be a TuCows mirror wearing three 20GB (Two
> IBM and one Quantum) drives in a three-drive stripe. Can do about
> 1.5MB/s, that's it. Very unimpressive, but freaking huge. "Boot" drive is
> 6BG, for a total of 66GB of storage. Nice to be able to expand large
> images and not be crunched for space.
> 
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> Kris Kirby, KE4AHR          | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said.
> <kris at nospam.catonic.net>   |    
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