[Info-vax] RAID vs. MOUNT/BIND

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

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<766c6ea4-cc49-40d4-9548-6bda664a5d6a at v19g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>, H
Vlems <hvlems at freenet.de> writes: 

> first, I have *very* painful memories with respect to restoring bound
> volumes.
> We had a VAX 8550 with bind sets, three RA82 disks bound and used as
> one volume.
> Restoring a bindset took forever. It was more than twice as long as
> restoring three
> seperate RA82 disks. Modern hardware is faster but I'd hate to restore
> a 3 member bindset
> composed of, say, 36 GB disks.

Indeed.  On the other hand, I've never had to do a restore due to
accidentally deleting stuff, and shadowing protects against disk
failure.  Thus, the only time would probably be when moving to a larger 
physical disk some time in the future (i.e. back up the bound set and 
restore to a single disk).

> Another thing is you ought to bind shadowsets, don't shadow bindsets.

That is my feeling as well; is the latter even possible?