Files outside of the pool...

[rjwaldren]

I've been going through several scenarios regarding my local greyhole implementation and it raised some questions that I'd like some input on. I'm pretty confident with the safety of the data within greyhole, but trying to find a good solution for the data outside of the pool.

Greyhole is fine for the shares, but what about the other things that we do with our hda's. How are people providing redundancy/data security to the rest of the system. I'm thinking in terms of apps that store data such as calendering tools, recipe books, etc, that store their data into their own directories. I suppose they could be redirected to local mounted shares, but I don't want to have to try to redo todays hacks a year from now when a problem arises.

The more I think about it I keep coming back to RAID5 or RAID1 as a better system wide solution, but not without it's own hassles. Or RAID1 for the / partition, and greyhole for the shares. Or weekly clones of my / partition, which is my current approach, that I'm working on automating.

I've been thinking about changing my LZ partition mount /from /var/hda/files to /var to better split out the volatile data from the OS partition. What are some of the amahi vets doing? Am I just overthinking this and a weekly clone is good enough?

[ghstryder]

I have Amahi installed on two 73GB Seagate Cheetahs running in RAID1 with a / partition and a small swap partition. /home and /var are both on the / partition. This works just fine for me, although I don't know that I would advise everyone to do it the same way, the LZ is probably better on it's own partition. I think the weekly clone is a fine solution too. I would absolutely recommend testing your planned restore method before you need it.

[rjwaldren]

I'm moving my OS off of a CF and the LZ and OS partitions will find their new home on a 500GB WD black 2.5" drive. Rather than messing with raid I think I'll just continue with a weekly clone of the drive to a reserved partition on a POOL hard drive. Nice and scriptable with a little grub magic and it won't take another SATA port.