Articles by Falko Timme

About Falko Timme

Falko Timme is an experienced Linux administrator and founder of Timme Hosting, a leading nginx business hosting company in Germany. He is one of the most active authors on HowtoForge since 2005 and one of the core developers of ISPConfig since 2000. He has also contributed to the O'Reilly book "Linux System Administration".

• How To Configure Software RAID To Send An Email When Something's Wrong With RAID

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux, storage • Comments: 4

  How To Configure Software RAID To Send An Email When Something's Wrong With RAID This short guide explains how you can configure software RAID to send you an email when something's wrong with RAID, for example if a hard drive fails. I've tested this on Debian Etch, but it should apply to all other distributions with minor adjustments to paths, etc.

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• Replacing A Failed Hard Drive In A Software RAID1 Array

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux, other, storage • Comments: 93

  This guide shows how to remove a failed hard drive from a Linux RAID1 array (software RAID), and how to add a new hard disk to the RAID1 array without losing data.

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• How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Debian Etch)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, storage • Comments: 38

  How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Debian Etch) This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running Debian Etch system. The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).

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• How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Mandriva 2008.0)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: mandriva, storage • Comments: 1

  How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Mandriva 2008.0) This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running Mandriva 2008.0 system. The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).

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• How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Debian Etch)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, storage • Comments: 5

  How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Debian Etch) This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running LVM system (Debian Etch). The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).

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• How To Resize LVM Software RAID1 Partitions (Shrink & Grow)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: linux, storage • Comments: 5

  How To Resize LVM Software RAID1 Partitions (Shrink & Grow) This article describes how you can shrink and grow existing software RAID1 partitions with LVM on top. I have tested this with logical volumes that use ext3 as the file system. I will describe this procedure for an intact RAID array and also a degraded RAID array.

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• How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Debian Lenny)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, storage • Comments: 2

  How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Debian Lenny) This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running Debian Lenny system. The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).

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• How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Debian Lenny)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: debian, storage • Comments: 1

  How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running LVM System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Debian Lenny) This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running LVM system (Debian Lenny). The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).

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• Network-Attached Storage With FreeNAS

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: freebsd, storage • Comments: 4

  Network-Attached Storage With FreeNAS This tutorial shows how you can set up a network-attached storage server with FreeNAS. FreeNAS is based on the FreeBSD operating system and supports CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, RSYNC, SSH, local user authentication, and software RAID (0, 1, 5). It comes with a powerful web interface and uses very little space on the hard drive - about 32MB.

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• How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Fedora 8)

  Author: Falko Timme • Tags: fedora, storage • Comments: 5

  How To Set Up Software RAID1 On A Running System (Incl. GRUB Configuration) (Fedora 8) This guide explains how to set up software RAID1 on an already running Fedora 8 system. The GRUB bootloader will be configured in such a way that the system will still be able to boot if one of the hard drives fails (no matter which one).

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