$100 on a old computer, you want a large tower with plenty of bays and a healthy power supply
$20 on a PCI SATA card.
two, three or four 1tb+ size drives
Debian netinstall cd
Base debian install with just "base system" and "ssh server", put all on one small partition on one drive.
Install extra drives - at least two (raid-1, mirroring) but better would be 3 or 4 total in the system (so you can have raid-5 with failover), create matching partitions across all of them, set up software raid (1 for mirroring 5 for striping).
Mount your new raid someplace and make a directory with proper permissions on it.
Macs can mount volumes by SSH, or you can install samba and use CIFS/SMBFS (windows style filesharing).
Code:
sj@id10t:~/ $ cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1]
md0 : active raid1 sdb1[0] sdc1[1]
117185984 blocks [2/2] [UU]
unused devices:
Quote:
Originally Posted by jyl
I have the drives running 24/7. When they used to sleep, iTunes and iPhoto couldn't find their libraries, and Time Capsule couldn't find its backup disk. I don't know if unchecking the "sleep" option was the best solution but it worked.
Can't install drive internally, this is a Mac mini, no spare bays.
Red, is there a RAID solution you recommend? I only need 1TB. Ideally a USB 3.0 as it doesn't need to be networked, it will be direct attached to the Mac. I'd like my data to survive two drive failures.
The failed drive spins but the Mac says it cannot read the drive.
Currently I have the Mac mini and the libraries live on an external drive (the one that failed). Another external drive backs up the Mac's internal boot drive and the library drive using Time Capsule. The boot and library drives are also cloned to another partition of the backup drive weekly. Finally, every now and then I manually copy the libraries over to an offsite drive that I keep in the garage. This is tedious. I'd like a transparent scheme.
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