multi drive

[PlayBoxTech]

Hi all,
So the server I have Vesta on has 2, 2TB drives. Currently with no raid support enabled.
Is there any way of asking Vesta to use both drives? Preferably without having to re-install anything.
Thanks,
Chris

[DarthVader]

Read about mdadm (https://linux.die.net/man/8/mdadm)

[PlayBoxTech]

So the answer is no then?

[DarthVader]

With mdadm you can build software RAID.
I suggest RAID 1

[DarthVader]

The answer is "Yes, You can use both disc with Vesta".

[PlayBoxTech]

With mdadm you can build software RAID.
I suggest RAID 1

With RAID 1, that just gives me 2 identical copies right? While that could be great in a hardware failure doesn't really allow me to 'use' the second drive as more space which is what I wanted to do.

I was more hoping of a way I could put some accounts on drive 1 some on drive 2.

[DarthVader]

This is impossible.
RAID1 is better solution.
Both disks are mirror images.

If one failure, then all data with all accounts stil will be correct on second.

[George441]

Hi all,
So the server I have Vesta on has 2, 2TB drives. Currently with no raid support enabled.
Is there any way of asking Vesta to use both drives? Preferably without having to re-install anything.
Thanks,
Chris

The answer is Yes, You can.

[DarthVader]

Could You tell us how?

1) What about paths in dovecot / exim?
2) What about DOCUMENT_ROOT paths?

As we know we can manual change document_root for www, but this is a temporary change.
With exim / dovecot - this is not simple because they not have vhosts so we could not change path to ~/conf and ~/mail for each users?

RAID is better protection for data and availibity. We eliminate storage spof (Single Point Of Failure).