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NEED TO ADD EXTRA SATA HDD TO SME SERVER 8.0

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purvis:
@microlantina
your time is worth way more than the cost of a second drive to make your system a raid1 system.
it is likely time to also just change out the drives if they have been working for a really long time.
the process to setup a raid1 is so easy inside of a sme server, thanks to many people here.
when you do this, you will sleep much better at night too by having your system more dependable.

Stefano:

--- Quote from: purvis on July 03, 2012, 10:48:51 AM ---@microlantina
your time is worth way more than the cost of a second drive to make your system a raid1 system.
it is likely time to also just change out the drives if they have been working for a really long time.
the process to setup a raid1 is so easy inside of a sme server, thanks to many people here.
when you do this, you will sleep much better at night too by having your system more dependable.

--- End quote ---

I would add that a good backup is highly recommended :-)

microlatina:
Thank you friends for your advice.

Some information and my opinion now that I have all up and running again:

This HDD has just one year in a new machine. I've been using SME with this same configuration for years and I changed machines every 2 years more or less.
The problem was produced by an electrical problem during a storm. The operating system failed, not the rest of the data on disk.
I tryed to use the SME rescue solution booting from the installation CD, I could see that the data was there, but again I couldn't find a way to read the data inside the ruined the HDD and copy it to other disk. I think that I should have to mount an extra HDD too  :-?

The method of copying the data using a Windows machine was simple for me with not much experience with Linux and solved the problem, but I am not happy with that. I would like to know how to do this the old fashion way, using the native Linux tools.

I know that the RAID disk storage is much better, but I have some concerns about using what I don't understand very well. If fixing a RAID system after a crash would expose me to the same lack of information of that in mounting an extra HDD to an SME server, it definitely wouldn't be a solution for me either. Do you know if there is any good, basic information about how RAID works, how to install and  ***specially*** how to fix a RAID system in case of a disaster ? If so, I would study it, spend some time on this and give it a try. If not, I can't imagine how could I read a RAID in a Windows PC  :-?

I have an extra HDD in my Windows PC to make backup from time to time, but in this case I needed information that was not included in the last backup. I would like to have and extra HDD to make automatic programmed backups directly inside the SME server.

Finally, I couldn't find information on how to easily mount an extra HDD to my SME server, and I still think that this should be something really simple for somebody with a little much more experience than mine. I also think that not everybody uses RAID in simple configurations.

Thank you all again, as always all opinions are very valuable to me.

janet:
microlatina

The info is here but you just couldn't find it.

Really if you are going to use Linux, at least learn some basics and stop relying on Windows.
You could have googled for mount or searched these forums for mount, you would have found lot's of answers
Please read the Howtos, the link is at the top of the forums, there are plenty that would inform you.
Trex & Stefano posted two links for you, did you read them ?

Connect your new SATA disk
Format ext3 , refer Howto

To see what drives are detected and their names & location
fdisk -l

mkdir -p /mnt/SATAbackup

To mount a drive
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/SATAbackup
(replace /dev/sda with your drive location and SATA port "name", replace /mnt/SATAbackup with your mount point location name)

df -h

To unmount the drive
umount /mnt/SATAbackup

microlatina:
Mary, thank you very much for your return.
This is what I said at the beginning of the post:


--- Quote ---The problem is that the information about how to do this across the forum and Googling "SME add extra SATA" , etc. is confusing and mostly related to RAID disks.
I found things like this:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=39014.0
http://wiki.contribs.org/Recovering_SME_Server_with_lvm_drives

... but are discouraging and very complicated for a newbie.
--- End quote ---

And later ... Googling ...


--- Quote ---Yes, I found good literature to start with for example here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/

It would be nice to find this simple tasks documented somewhere in the SME environment. Maybe I skipped something, but I first Googled and searched the contribs.org forums and found nothing about simple matters like this issue. Maybe SME is for a higher level of expertise users ...
--- End quote ---

Unfortunately I couldn't find what I needed that easy.
It would be nice to find persons like you that can enlighten this issue.
Why don't you contribute a brief explanation about this particular topic ?
I don't think that what you are explaining is all under just one roof.

Thank you again
Roberto

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