SOLVED: What happens if my OS drive fails?
Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:25 pm
As we all know, death, taxes and hard drive failure are the only sure things in life. So, as I have not found a good way to automate a OS drive backup, I'm curious how difficult it would be to get my server back up and running if this happens.
I have 11 drives in the pool totaling 17.3TB of storage. 14.4TB is used. All of my important shares are set to 'uses pool' and 1 extra copy.
I don't know if it's necessary/helpful/useless but right now, I have a share in the pool named 'Backup'. This share is where all of my various PC's automatically backup to. After giving this some thought, and once I began using MySQL to manage my libraries in XBMC, I figured having a backup of it was probably a good idea so I am using the automysqlbackup script mentioned here: http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Database_Backup
Is there anything else I should be doing?
I'm comfortable dropping in a new drive and loading the latest version of Amahi, I'm just concerned about getting my shares back up and accessible as quickly as possible afterwards. All of our TV shows, movies, music is stored on the server. 90% of our entertainment centers around my HTPC so knowing this in advance so I'm prepared is very important to me.
Thanks in advance! And if this topic was previously covered and I missed it, feel free to just drop a link for the slow kid
I have 11 drives in the pool totaling 17.3TB of storage. 14.4TB is used. All of my important shares are set to 'uses pool' and 1 extra copy.
I don't know if it's necessary/helpful/useless but right now, I have a share in the pool named 'Backup'. This share is where all of my various PC's automatically backup to. After giving this some thought, and once I began using MySQL to manage my libraries in XBMC, I figured having a backup of it was probably a good idea so I am using the automysqlbackup script mentioned here: http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Database_Backup
Is there anything else I should be doing?
I'm comfortable dropping in a new drive and loading the latest version of Amahi, I'm just concerned about getting my shares back up and accessible as quickly as possible afterwards. All of our TV shows, movies, music is stored on the server. 90% of our entertainment centers around my HTPC so knowing this in advance so I'm prepared is very important to me.
Thanks in advance! And if this topic was previously covered and I missed it, feel free to just drop a link for the slow kid