[TriLUG] Raid gurus?

[John Broome]

On 3/15/06, WA Brown <brownwa at ftc-i.net> wrote:
> Thats some of what I need to know. I have been working on the server backup.
> I was wondering if the raid set up would do what I needed. What I am
> thinking is that with Raid1, can I unplug one drive ,then plug in another
> and use that as a backup disk? Will the Raid build the new drive that I put
> in place? I have read a bunch about Raid but it dont answer these questions.
> Or am I thinking wrong?


When you say "backup" disk, are you talking about having one on hand
to replace one that goes bad, or sticking a drive in there to do like
nightly backups?

'cause RAID isn't for BACKUPS.