Topic: NOOB question about Raid

[Bluephoton]

Ian

I have my photos backed up on several DVDs.  I even keep a copy at work in case the house burns down.  What if your RAID system goes up in a house fire?  I hope you take more precautions than that.

I would only use a non-RAID system for non critical files.  I can always rip music and movies again if I had to.

[tviles]

Blue login to the root and type in htop. It's task manager SME style!

[tviles]

Ian I want to run ZoneMinder on this SME server. Can you point me in the right direction? I downloaded ZoneMinder-1.23.2.tar.gz
http://www.zoneminder.com/downloads.html

[Bluephoton]

Ray

I got the second 500gb drive and installed it (waited for a full resync and then rebooted) and then did the steps here:

http://wiki.contribs.org/Raid (I see they have changed substantially since I last attempted)

It seemed to work ok and a df -h command showed 456gb but I couldn't map it with my XP box - it just showed no drives on my server in explorer.

I rebooted everything and I still can't see it with explorer even though I could access the console from the xp box no problem. 

Disk redundancy now says:

Only some of the RAID devices devices are clean

Manual intervention may be required.

It looks like md2 is "resync = 30.7%" and its going to take 344 min !

I have the data backed up (and that only took 120 min) so I am just going to start over again with a fresh install on the 2 - 500gb drives.

Just wanted to let you know how it turned out.

[tviles]

Dang so when I get my new used drives from Ebay I get to reload SME?
Dell poweredge with BP board. SCSI drives 80 pin.

[Bluephoton]

That was my experience but maybe I did something wrong.

I reloaded and it works great now - 467GB of storage space.

[tviles]

Sweet, I will just have to load up this server and take it to work and reload it. Still on dial up at the house.

[tviles]

Actually I will probably give up on SME. I want to get my security cameras over to the server which I could do with a Linux program called Zoneminder, but I think we are going to go with a EVDO card out here for faster internet and the software is not going to load on Linux I don't think. I might be wrong but I think we would have to use the program supplied by Sprint/Embarq.