Rick the Red's Journal: Another submission

Well, I've submitted another story. We'll see how long it takes to reject this one. The last one was stuck in "pending" for months...

Update: It was rejected in a matter of minutes. Wow, that's quite an improvement in response time!

On the off chance that anyone bothers to read my journal, my question is about data recovery. I'm in the middle of YetAnother DataRecoveryProject, and I'm wondering what's the best file system if eventual data recovery is the primary goal? In my experience, hard drive failure is a question of when, not if, so I might as well be ready for it. Yeah, I know -- backups. But what filesystem should I use for the backups? I'm leaning toward RAID, but I have zero experience with it. Given that I have IDE drives, should I put them on different controllers or doesn't that matter? What's the best RAID software for a nubie like me? I lean toward OpenBSD so that means RAIDframe, but is that the best for a beginner? Is any RAID software solution good for a beginner? Inquiring minds want to know!

Best data recovery ---

[tomhudson]

Putting the drives on different controllers still leaves too many single points of failure.

Putting them in different boxes (preferably in different parts of the city) is best.

But you probably already knew that :-)

FYI

[nizo]

A raid card we have been using (from 3ware) works great (supported outta-the-box by Linux too). Basically a no-brainer setup. Also you could look at some kind of mirrored file system across two machines; I haven't used any but I know they exist:

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials /4 481/1
http://www.openafs.org
http://evms.sourcef orge.net
http://www.linux-ha.org

Re:FYI

[nizo]

That first link is supposed to be for the coda filesystem, see the homepage at:

http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/