On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 15:06:55 -0600, Karl Larsen <k5di@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I did a Goggle search and found Linux Journal, Home, RAID-1, Part 1 > and 2 by Joe Malmin and Ron Shaker, 2002-08-13 and I have read it like a > book once. It talks to the raid-1 being a superior way to back up your > computer. I learned that raid mirrors partitions not hard drives. You > can use any two hard drives or even the same hard drive! I plan to make > a raid 1 using the two hard drives I have in this computer right now :-) Raid is not a backup system. It is used to reduce the downtime of your system due to disk failures. You still need to do backups. > It appears I can use the method shown to make a /usr raid 1. I have > /usr backed up on my 9 GB USB device. But the author suggests you put a > copy of /usr on /var/. We will use mkraid which I find I do not have. > Perhaps I can yum it to my system. Perhaps there is a newer tool? You can create raid arrays when you install. Doing this on disks that already have data on them you care about, is trickier and easy to screw up.
