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Re: Lion 10.7.2 RAID-0 with TonyMacX86 tools & Chimera 1.6.0
TM it, or CCC/SuperDuper it once in awhile.
Even a RAID/5 or 6 needs to be backed up. Just the redundancy of RAID isn't enough.
I backup my RAID0 boot volume & my RAID5 9TB (4.2 worth of data) to a 2nd 6TB RAID5 array - and check the status of my ARRAYS and individual drive SMART status every day or two.
Plus I "snapshot" my boot drive once a week (depending on how much additional apps & data I add) just to be sure.
Never can be too safe with data.
In the case of a RAID0 stripe, one drive goes - all data goes. Simple enough to take your last TM snapshot or CCC/SuperDuper snapshot, and just re-do the procedure in Post#1. After screwing it up a few times initially, I could probably get the system back up (using a generic base install on an old laptop drive - I always keep a virgin base boot drive so I can get back onto my box & drives in an emergency) in under an hour.
For those of us that depend on our boxes for our livelihoods, never can be TOO SAFE...
Rick
opty said:neil you are the man, it worked perfect with my pair of ssd crucial M4 and smoking fast RAID 0 setup
the first reboot it crashed on me but it seems to be fine after that.
how reliable is software raid? i do have backups going and most of my data would be on a separate disk anyway.
Thanks
TM it, or CCC/SuperDuper it once in awhile.
Even a RAID/5 or 6 needs to be backed up. Just the redundancy of RAID isn't enough.
I backup my RAID0 boot volume & my RAID5 9TB (4.2 worth of data) to a 2nd 6TB RAID5 array - and check the status of my ARRAYS and individual drive SMART status every day or two.
Plus I "snapshot" my boot drive once a week (depending on how much additional apps & data I add) just to be sure.
Never can be too safe with data.
In the case of a RAID0 stripe, one drive goes - all data goes. Simple enough to take your last TM snapshot or CCC/SuperDuper snapshot, and just re-do the procedure in Post#1. After screwing it up a few times initially, I could probably get the system back up (using a generic base install on an old laptop drive - I always keep a virgin base boot drive so I can get back onto my box & drives in an emergency) in under an hour.
For those of us that depend on our boxes for our livelihoods, never can be TOO SAFE...
Rick