[Box Backup] Raid Config

[Ben Summers]

On 16 Mar 2006, at 11:24, Steve Nelson wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Just a quick clarification.  The raid config documentation states:
>
> "The three directories are the locations of the roots of the raid file
> directories. These are probably the mount points of three big
> partitions on three separate physical discs."
>
> My raid directory is a software raid 1 -  /data under linux mounted  
> as /dev/md0
>
> I don't believe I can address the physical disks - only the  
> metadevice.
>
> I am thinking that just a single entry for /data should be fine, as
> the RAID is done at the software level, and is transparent to
> boxbackup?
>
> What is actually meant here by the three directories, partitions and
> discs?  Perhaps a diagram would be handy?
>
> I'm more than happy to write this up in more detail, perhaps allowing
> for sds under solaris, software raid under linux, and vinum under
> *bsd.

If you are using raid at the device level, whether hardware RAID or  
software RAID in the kernel, you should not use Box Backup's userland  
software RAID.

Just specify a single directory within /data to raidfile-config.

Ben