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Making Backups
Feb 22nd
Backups can be very important, no one wants to lose any of their data–especially if it has happened to you before.
I have previously setup my x64 desktop PC with softRAID, so everything I have in my /home folder is mirrored across 2 drives. However, I am not sure if I am overly paranoid, or maybe I just like to be extra secure because now I have implemented an additional backup measure.
It started when I read some of this stuff about backups and solutions, so I decided I should probably do something similar. The one from distrowatch really pushed me a long though, More >
some stuff
Feb 3rd
A common problem with Linux software RAID (aka md) happens when you try to use a disk that was previously part of some other disk array. Symptoms include: wrong volume size, unable to add device to raid, volume UUID mismatch. To fix the problem you need to use mdadm utility on the disk to cleanup:
# mdadm --zero-superblock devicepath
Building a Linux wireless access point How to Remove Windows viruses with Linux Create Linux Software RAID 1 (mirror) Array -Similar to the articles I have referenced before, when I wrote a series of posts about setting up my software RAID1 wich my Arch More >
The conclusion of My adventure installing Linux on softRAID1 (part 4)
Sep 30th
Finally…I’ve gotten around to doing this. It has really taken a lot longer than it should have…but life is busy (I even went on vacation somewhere in there…AND stripped wallpaper/painted 2 rooms in the house. haha). “Installing softRAID on Linux” is a more fitting title, at this point–being the Linux has been installed and working for quite a while, whereas the RAID has not.
I have changed my intended setup a few times during this journey, and have finally settled on leaving my /boot and /(root) partitions NON-raid, operating off of my /dev/sda drive. My home (which happens More >
My adventure installing Linux on softRAID0/1 (part 2)
Sep 4th
This is a continuation of Part 1.
After fiddling with Ubuntu and my RAID setup for a while, I got to thinking. After every upgrade I would run into this same issue, and would have to re-do the array create/build/assembly process while making sure the kernel was placed properly, as well as the initramfs.
So… combining that realization with my positive experience with Arch Linux, I decided to give up on Ubuntu and proceed forward using Arch. I have had no problems thus far with running Arch on my laptop, but on my desktop I will be much more focused on stability, rather than latest-and-greatest. More >
