On 1 February 2013 20:02, Tim Brocklehurst <timb@???> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Small support task (probably about 1 day, maybe 2 including backing up
> existing data) to help out a local company between Andover and Stockbridge. If
> anyone is able to help, let me know and I'll put you in touch. I have given
> the enquirer some basic details on RAID, and advised that he doesn't move to a
> windows server, as per last part of thier e-mail.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim B.
>
> Original Message below:
>
> To: chairman@???
>
> Hi Tim
> I wonder if you could help us. Do you know anyone who could configure a
> Suse RAID 5 Array on a fairly old machine so that we can increase the
> disk sizes?
> We are a small video company between Andover and Stockbridge
>
> Details are -
> We have a Tyan 2892 mb in a 16 X HD server chassis. We only use it as a
> place to keep our very large video file back ups. It connects by gigabit
> ethernet to our Win 7 work stations. (We have to have Windows to run
> Adobe production software)
>
> It has 16 HD including a sys drive, some office data (which we can put
> anywhere else) and 12 X 750 Gig of video files in a RAID 5 array
> We want to change 6 HDs initially with 2TB HDs. At present most the data
> is already copied off.
>
> We had thought our one year old version of Suse and our RAID controller
> (unknown to us at present) would enable us to upgrade one disk at a time.
> Failing that we would configure two arrays, one to hold the new disks
> and one to use the rest of the existing ones.
>
> The Suse and server have run faultlessly for several years.We have had 2
> or 3 single failed HDs that get replaced and re-stripe/restore RAID 5
> data with no problems.
>
> We cannot find a local Linux person to call on for occasional support so
> were thinking we should move to Windows - but we don`t really want to
> although we are ourselves reasonably proficient with Windows (started
> before XP now on Win 7 - 6 work station PCs.
>
I would be curious what people recommend as the solution.
btrfs might be good here, because it allows expansion easily
James
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