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Re: Nervous beginner

happyhacker — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 20:12:25 GMT

Thanks for your input to this post.

Re: Nervous beginner

happyhacker — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:28:27 GMT

Yes, that does make sense. I'll see if the boss can afford an extra 2 drives. However am I right in my assessment of RAID 1:

a. If I put the OS on a 160Gb RAID 1 and it fails I will get some sort of report. I remove the failed drive and having a spare handy I plug it in and the system looks after itself on boot up? I do not think I can hot plug a RAID 1.

b. Can the extra drive be any make and size?

Re: Nervous beginner

happyhacker — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:12:03 GMT

Hm, assuming I have backed up the OS surely I would just put in a new drive, reinstall the OS and import to latest config. from the backedup file?

Nervous beginner

happyhacker — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:44:14 GMT

I volunteer for a charity (UK) and they are buying a new server and SBS2008. My initial question regards the hardware platform. It comes with 160Gbyte drive and we have bought 2 x 1TByte drives to be arranged in a RAID 1 way.

1. Do we keep the 160 drive and use that to install SBS or remove it and install on the RAID setup?

2. Is it normal to default the internal DN to <ourname>.local. I am not sure how this is used by users on the network and want it to be sensible.

Thanks.