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raskion
Jan 27, 2015Aspirant
Raid only a partition
Hi, I'm interested in Netgear RN10200. I would like to know if it's possible to raid (1) just a part of two hard drives, and leave other partitions in a non raid state (or JBOD if I understand corr...
StephenB
Jan 27, 2015Guru - Experienced User
On a normal linux system you could do this with mdadm. The GUI and NAS software is not designed to support it though. So you'll have trouble setting up shares, etc. I don't suggest it.
raskion wrote: I don't think this can be done with the GUI, but I could do via terminal using mdadm.
This will work. You use flexraid, and create two data volumes (one per disk). The share names have to be unique though (documents, backup-documents). Or just create a backup share on the second disk, and create subfolders named documents and picture.
raskion wrote: If this is not possibile, the "backup" solution would be to not use raid at all and duplicate manually the "documents" and "picture" folders. With no raid, I can see the disk as separate or the system will hide details and show me a unique disk like it can be done with LVM?
You can also set up backup jobs that will update the backups automatically (on a schedule you set).
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