backup & low downtime for home network

[Chris Aitken]

Chris Aitken wrote:

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>>>> Okay, I set Master and Slave on each IDE cable. I'm starting up the 
>>>> computer now (I'm installing ubuntu 7.10). The first thing I see is,
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>>>> The folowing configuration options were automatically updated:
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>>>> Disk: 137438MB   WDC WD1600AAJB-00PVA0
>>>> CD-ROM: CDD-1480
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>>> Okay, the ubuntu installer sees it as a 160 GB hard drive. 
>>> Nevertheless, it's only discovered /dev/sda which means it doesn't 
>>> see the second hard drive at all. I guess I'll have to open the box 
>>> and re-check the jumpering (?)...
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>> I'm fine - the IDE cable was a little loose from the hard drive. 
>> These modest revelations are both embarassing and happy-making.
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> While we're at it, does anyone have suggestions as to how I should 
> carve up the drive (/, /home, /var et  al.)?
>
> I'm going to be multitrack recording with audacity, and I'll have 
> maybe a hundred songs (.ogg) as well. OO, printing, and all the other 
> usual suspects.

I did a little searching on the Internet - it seems that to set up 
software RAID 1 you partition both hard drives the same (even making 
them both bootable) and then choose "physical volumes for RAID".

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Chris
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