Topic: Mondo Restore + Software RAID

[rf131]

Does Mondo handle the software RAID in 6.0.1, or is there an extra step here?  I did an RTFM and looked at the HOWTO, but didn't come away with anything definitive.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Reinhold]

Kevin,

Mondo does handle SME & raid just fine.

The only 2 gotcha-cases I had with Mondo are:
- when linux (SME) was newly installed on a hd that had another linux before...partition naming goes haywire & restore will freak out...
- if you use dmay's raidmonitor on a mondo restore you'll need a /usr/local/bin/raidmonitor -iv re-install-start.

Regards
Reinhold

[rf131]

Thanks Reinhold,

I did catch the the notes about labeling issue with the hard drives.

It looks like from your response that both drives get populated and rebuilt automatically, and that raidmonitor is started over to tell it everything is OK now.

In the unlikely event you have a disk catastrophe with both disks in a RAID 1, it still looks like you would need to run fdisk and set up the partitions first, right?  I know you need to do this when replacing one bad disk.  I guess it pays to dump the fdisk partition info, print it, and place it next to the hard drive inside the cabinet.

I'll be playing with this some, even to the point of nuking the server (it is not deployed yet) to make sure I can get everything back.  The rsnapshot installed nicely and will give me backups on a USB disk for regularly changing, newly added files.

Kevin