Re: [tlug] hard drive shock resiliance and health - linux tools?

[Matt Gross <mgrossjp@example.com>]

On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 17:17 -0400, Jim wrote:
> Matt Gross wrote:
> 
> > ... I ... accidentally bumped my server. 
> > It rocked back and forth a little bit, but did not fall over. 
> 
> > I'm not seeing any errors and everything is working fine. 
> 
> Consider yourself lucky. Declare victory and run away. 

Thanks everyone for the great feedback.  I checked my logs and the
S.M.A.R.T. info and everything looks fine.

> > RAID5
> 
> Check your RAID status tools also. There are plenty of folks who 
> throw money at stuff, without getting the full benefit. 
> There are folks who pay more for RAID, but never monitor it. 
> So when (not if) a drive dies, they don't notice it until 
> another drive dies, then they are seriously screwed. 
> 
> By the way, do you keep backups? 

Hmmm..., backups?  Isn't that why I've chosen RAID5?  If I was to backup
my 2.1TB RAID5 disk array, can someone recommend a low cost backup
method?

> Do you practice _restoring_ from backups? 
> 
> Jim
> 
>

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