What happens if my main drive dies?
Hello I have ubuntu 20 latest. I have setup 4 drives as a file sharing drives. Two of them are in raid 0 for mirroring and the other two drives are setup in raid 0 morning also. All drives are in software raid. The problem I’m facing dense I don’t. Have any more SATA ports to put a redundant drive on the main drive what happens if my main drive dies, Do I lose the raids on all drives can they be recovered if I put in a new main drive? I just don’t want to lose what I have if the main drive fails.
Joseph
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Hello thank you for that. But. I understand what happens in a raid but I’m wondering if the main drive drives what happens to the raid drives once I replace the main drive with a new one? Is the raid of the other drives are still intacted or I lose everything?
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If the drive with the root filesystem is separate from the arrays, they won't be affected by its replacement. I've moved arrays between machines without a problem.
I think being concerned about the integrity of your arrays and choosing RAID0 is a bit contradictory.
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I’m sorry it’s raid 1 for redundancy not raid 0. I was refereeing to.
Joseph
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Hello thank you. I’m just worried that my kids pictures and homemade movies of my kids growing up will be gone if I lost the main drive.
Joseph
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To avoid losses you should have backups.
RAID is no substitute for backups.
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CelticWarrior
To avoid losses you should have backups.
RAID is no substitute for backups.
+1000. There are many failures that raid1 doesn’t handle where only wiping and a fresh restore from backups is required.
Backups are always necessary.
I've also moved SW-RAID arrays between systems with little issues. Even changed disk controllers a few times.
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You can always clone your main disk with dd
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josephchrzempiec
Hello thank you. I’m just worried that my kids pictures and homemade movies of my kids growing up will be gone if I lost the main drive.
Joseph
For irreplaceables like this, I'd want more than one backup, perhaps one in the 'cloud'.
