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Is it possible to back up one RAID with another?
I have two separate enclosures each running on RAID Level 5. My question is would it be possible to set up the second RAID to mirror the first RAID? This may sound like pure madness or I may have the concept completely and utterly wrong, but I was just wondering if it was possible.
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[Chris Burns] “I have two separate enclosures each running on RAID Level 5. My question is would it be possible to set up the second RAID to mirror the first RAID? This may sound like pure madness or I may have the concept completely and utterly wrong, but I was just wondering if it was possible.”
Certainly – at the controller or OS level.
Alex Gerulaitis
Systems Engineer
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There are lots of fun nested raid levels: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_RAID_levels#RAID_51
There’s also some good information there on typical and possible setups.
However nested RAID is still not a backup; the minute/second/instant a file is corrupted, it’s corrupted anywhere. When you’re nesting RAID 5 in RAID 1, you’re adding a whole other level of redundancy against hardware failure, and increasing read speeds (over a single RAID 5 group).
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I think, if you can afford it, it’s the best back up – two seperate Raids with the same capacity both running on redundant raid levels.
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Rainer
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