On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 04:17, Paul Howarth wrote: > > > > Is there a guide to recovering data from them? So far I've kept > > everything critical on hand-configured RAID1 partitions because > > I know how to recover data from any single disk that might be left > > after a disaster. > > I run LVM over RAID1 for the same reasons. Can you set that up during the initial install? Also, are there steps you have to take when cloning machines by dd or rebuilding raid mirrors to make sure they don't confuse the system if you move drives around and end up with a duplicate in the same machine (like the filesystem labels do)? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx