Received: from localhost (maia-2.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C089FB3F2 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 05:30:03 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.187]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 10380-07 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 05:29:51 -0300 (ADT) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey-1.7.5 Received: from floppy.pyrenet.fr (news.pyrenet.fr [194.116.145.2]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C30979FB3E1 for ; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 05:29:59 -0300 (ADT) Received: by floppy.pyrenet.fr (Postfix, from userid 106) id 745933140F; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:29:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: Hannes Dorbath X-Newsgroups: pgsql.performance Subject: Re: FORGOT TO CONFIGURE RAID! DELL POWEREDGE 2950 Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:29:05 +0200 Organization: Hub.Org Networking Services Lines: 28 Message-ID: <46988951.9050108@theendofthetunnel.de> References: <1184357777.135345.38110@n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.hub.org To: Joseph User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) In-Reply-To: <1184357777.135345.38110@n60g2000hse.googlegroups.com> To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.274 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=AWL=0.273, BAYES_50=0.001 X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200707/167 X-Sequence-Number: 25851 Joseph wrote: > We just got a DELL POWEREDGE 2950. So I was tasked with putting > Linux Redhat and dumped our software/packages on it. Contrary to > common sense, I didn't bother reading the manuals that came with te > 2950. I went right ahead and installed Redhat server on it, then went > and loaded the backups software/data etc onto it and started having > the team use it. And this has to do with pgsql.performance exactly what? Anyway, as someone who seems to administrates a PostgreSQL production box, you sure have a good backup plan. So just call DELL's support, fix you RAID and restore form backup.