three_jeeps
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Suppose I set up a Free NAS box with two, 4TB drives configured as RAID 1, e.g. disk mirroring.
Assume I split the one 4Tb drive into 4-1TB partitions to serve as backup targets for 3 Win XP machines, and 1 OSX 10.6 machine.
Assume there is no compressions of the backup data.
Suppose my FreeNAS box explodes and only one of the two disk drives survive.
If I take the surviving drive and put it into a external USB disk enclosure, I then plug it into a xp machine, what would I need to have XP 'see' the drive? The goal here is to grab the data stored on the disk.
Same scenario, only with a mac osx 10.6 - what do I need to do to 'see' the disk?
Suppose I compress the data on the backup disk. What do I need on the xp machine to see the data? Ditto for the OSX machine?
Assume that, in the event of a failure, I don't/can't rebuild another FreeNAS box.
Thank you for your insight into this question.
Assume I split the one 4Tb drive into 4-1TB partitions to serve as backup targets for 3 Win XP machines, and 1 OSX 10.6 machine.
Assume there is no compressions of the backup data.
Suppose my FreeNAS box explodes and only one of the two disk drives survive.
If I take the surviving drive and put it into a external USB disk enclosure, I then plug it into a xp machine, what would I need to have XP 'see' the drive? The goal here is to grab the data stored on the disk.
Same scenario, only with a mac osx 10.6 - what do I need to do to 'see' the disk?
Suppose I compress the data on the backup disk. What do I need on the xp machine to see the data? Ditto for the OSX machine?
Assume that, in the event of a failure, I don't/can't rebuild another FreeNAS box.
Thank you for your insight into this question.