Backup Question, Preserving Hard Links

[John Abreau]

Kent Borg wrote:

> Though, as disks get even bigger, they get scarier again--two many
> eggs in a single basket; anyone know of an external enclosure that
> holds two 3.5 inch disks, is well cooled, and physically strong--but
> not too heavy?  Though I guess I am getting ahead of myself here, we
> haven't begun to outgrow our 300 GB disks.

I picked up a SnapServer 2000 on eBay with the intention of mirroring 
two 300 gb drives. Unfortunately, the box didn't recognize the drives, 
and was only able to use 120 gb.

I found a nice drive cage made by Supermicro that I plan to try out; it
holds 5 hotswap SATA drives, and takes up the space of 3 drive bays on
a tower PC.

http://pcconnection.com/web/Shopping/Product.htm?product%5Fid=441755

Add a 4-port SATA card and a set of SATA hard drives, and I should be
all set. I figure I'll use four 300 gb drives, in mirrored pairs, to
make a 600 gb LVM volume group.


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