Linux / ubuntu or debian RAID 1 array setup

[Geekio]

does anyone know of a simple method of setting up 2 1tb drives in a raid 1 array via software in linux distro ubuntu or debian??


every guide im seeing says do it at install  but i don't want my file-system on the array, i simply want it for a storage pool.

[KemoKa]

does anyone know of a simple method of setting up 2 1tb drives in a raid 1 array via software in linux distro ubuntu or debian??

every guide im seeing says do it at install  but i don't want my file-system on the array, i simply want it for a storage pool.

I'm guessing that your motherboard doesn't support hardware RAID. Software RAID should be in whatever disk utility you have on your Linux distro, if it has it at all.

[Geekio]

im using an ubuntu 14.04 distro modified with the server packages but ya its not in my disk utility, which i thought it would be in, everything ive found online seems to be heavily terminal based which im still learning 


im really wondering if running 1tb in raid 1 is worth it on a home file server , or if i should just run incrimental backups from one drive to the other since raid1 offers 0 performance gains and in reality i already get about 70-80MB/s transfers over the network on the drives as single storage devices

[d0nsen]

http://allgood38.io/setting-up-a-basic-linux-zfs-instance.html

 

all you need.

[Geekio]

omg thank you sooooooo much

[Geekio]

bah the repository is down


$ fixed

[Geekio]

sudo apt-get install zfs-linux

isnt working 

[d0nsen]

you updated your apt? sudo apt-get update