Is it possible to have a partition span across 2 or more drives?

[owenbrown]

Is it possible to have a partition span across 2 or more drives?

I have a backup script set to write to /backup, after a couple days the backups are larger than all resonably priced drives.

Whats the easiest way to do that?

 

[ski]

What do you consider 'resonably priced drives'?

 

[comtec17]

You are using /backup so you must be using some sort of *nix.

What OS are you using?

 

[Blujacket]

You may be able to have files span multiple drives but partitions are contained entirely on a drive, i.e. each hard drive has to be partitioned before it's usable and can have several partitions on the same drive.

Drives are quite inexpensive, consider 1993/94 when a 345MB drive was $345.00.

Will your /backup do an incremental backup, only what has changed from the last one.

 

[wolluf]

RAID?

 

[Freestone]

Windows 2000 and XP allow you to use dynamic disks which can contain spanned volumes.

Windows 2000:

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=175761

XP:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;314343