Minor disaster recovery

Tom Buskey tom at buskey.name
Wed Aug 12 09:59:38 EDT 2009


At the risk of being "told you so", add some infrastructure to your server.

For example, here's what I do:

2 drives in software RAID 1 for the OS (20 GB driver were cheapest when I
started).

2+ drives in software RAID 1 or 5 for DATA.

Monitor the drives for failure (logwatch sends a daily email)

When (not if) a drive fails, remove it, RMA it and replace it before the
other drive fails.  You can put a larger drive in if it costs less then
drive you're replacing.

You'll have downtime when you remove/install drives, but that's it.  You
shouldn't care about downtime on a home system.

Of course, this won't help you now.
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