Software Raid 5 supported on OS X Server?
Does anyone know if OS X Server does software raid 5? I swear this used to be on the product page, but now I can't find anything anywhere about raid support in OS X Server.
Also, if OS X server doesn't do it, does anyone have any tricks/advice for the poor man's raid 5? I am making a backup system for a multimedia company's 1 terabyte central file server, so it needs to be large and reliable but not fast.
Also, if OS X server doesn't do it, does anyone have any tricks/advice for the poor man's raid 5? I am making a backup system for a multimedia company's 1 terabyte central file server, so it needs to be large and reliable but not fast.
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How cheap do you need it to be?
Originally posted by Jellytussle
nope, RAID 0 or 1 only.
How cheap do you need it to be?
Well, here's what i was GOING to do: get one of those 8 bay firewire 800 towers (sub $400), fill it with 250 gig drives, tie them together with software raid 5, then use retrospect to back up to them.
so i was willing to pay $500 for os x server. so let's say i'm willing to spend up to $1,000 for the raid 5 part of the system.
the thing with rsync and other tools is that the client won't be able to use it easily after i leave. with retrospect they can just browse files with the gui.
i know that retrospect keeps a log and only backs up changed files, and it says it keeps incrimental backups, so we can roll back to any given version of a file... one thing i need to investigate on monday is if it keeps old versions of files that have been deleted on the source volume. does anyone know?