Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

  • NoRamyunForYou
    2·
    7 months ago

    Is that mirrored array referring to RAID?

    I literally have no knowledge in this stuff. Once you have something like this setup, how does it work? Once you configure it, does it automatically backup files in a certain location on your computer?, or do you manually move files onto it that you want to backup?

    • DaveOPMA
      2·
      7 months ago

      Oh man I’m gonna show my lack of knowledge too 🙂. I’ll try anyway, but take everything I say with a grain of salt.

      There are different types of RAID, but I believe RAID 1 would be a mirrored array. This Lemmy instance is on a ZFS mirrored array, but that’s handled by the host so I don’t have to understand it 🙃. I am not sure if the ZFS mirror is considered RAID but it’s basically the same thing as RAID 1 (perhaps one is hardware one is software based?)

      I see this setup as more of a redundancy for a live system so it can continue with one of the drives after a failure without downtime, and I probably wouldn’t consider the mirrored drive a backup. But I’m no expert!

      • NoRamyunForYou
        2·
        7 months ago

        I always mean to do some more research into the topic, and never get past that stage lol. Maybe this time will be different… maybe… lol