Retrospect Raid

I realized that the firmware could not be installed booting from a RAID array. ...

I have a PowerMac G4 Dual Processor with 1GHz processors running as a file server. The data is stored on the a pair of LaCie 250 GB drives arranged in a mirror RAID array. The array has functioned fine for a year. Recently we began to implement backups with Retrospect 6. ...

WD SATA 120GB drives hanging off this. Set up in Disk Utility as RAID 1, partitioned into 5 volumes. ...

Hi Michael, Thanks for the document, it's very comprehensive! However I have an issue that I'm not sure you address particularly, namely backing up to NAS boxes via FTP. At present we mirror data from our 40 instrument and user PC's to a network-drive mounted 4.3TB X-Serve RAID (using robocopy and rsync scripts for want of anything better), from where we back up to a...

And the Retrospect logs do not show someone restoring the backup over the files. Just in case someone was think that was the case. ...

I can read or write around 75MB per second on each of the 6 disk RAID sets, with multiple gigabyte files. ...

Got a Xserve with a 1TB raid system connected. ...

Well, to make a long story short, due to lack of ability to split partitions when RAIDing, I decided to go with multiple partitions on both drives on both buses and using a backup program (tested Retrospect Express and liked how it worked). One nice thing about backup as opposed to pure live data redundancy is that you can roll back to an accidentally deleted file pretty...