Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and 16 bay JBOD

2011-03-16 13:34:46
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Bacula and 16 bay JBOD
From: Mike Hobbs <mhobbs AT mtl.mit DOT edu>
To: david.robison AT fisglobal DOT com
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:29:10 -0400
  On 03/16/2011 01:12 PM, Robison, Dave wrote:
> Just curious, why not put that jbod into a RAID array? I believe you'd
> get far better performance with the additional spools and you'd get
> redundancy as well.
>
> Personally I'd set that up as a RAIDZ using ZFS on FreeBSD.
>
>

I believe the reason why we decided not to use raid was in case the raid 
array got corrupted.  We would then lose all of our backups.. Where as 
if one disk dies, we only lose what was on that disk.  There may have 
been another reason but  I think that was the main reason.

mike

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