Here is a post on backups, which are a big part of security even though they don’t make the servers or network more “secure”.
Well, I bought 12 1.5TB drives (2 sets of 6) for my master backup server, however I’ve had a hell of a time getting it to work.
I tried both sets of the drives, 1-3 drives at time, accepting/reject the current configuration but with no luck.
The raid card does not pick up the drives, it does under the drive utilities section, but not under initialize drives or create array.
I even tried initializing the drives on another raid card and the bringing them back over, no luck.
Tried a new raid card, no luck.
I believe the problem is the raid card does not support 1.5TB drives and the limit is 1TB, which are the size of the old drives that were in there.
I hope I’m right because a new raid card is $580.
While I have this server unracked, I put an extra 2GB of ram in. rsync uses quite a bit of ram as it stores the file list in memory.
The raid card should be here Wednesday, and I’ll let you know if that worked.
TTYL,
DW