On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 11:38 +0200, Adrian Moisey wrote:
> Hi
> 
> > What is the recommendation when it comes to backing up over multiple HDDs
> > 
> > I have 6 x 1TB drives, and I am trying to choose between a single LVM 
> > volume, or 6 separate drives.
> > 
> > Which will be more beneficial to bacula?
> 
> Why not RAID-5 them?   That way you'll get 5TB of storage and if a disk 
> breaks you don't loose any data.  Thats what I did.

I am looking for expandability - ie, able to add just 1 extra disk when
I need to

Newer kernels can extend raid 5, but I dont 'trust' it yet...

Also, raid 5 may be too slow for me, but I havent tested this yet


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