Free software raid software for linux

Raidmon is a shell script which runs as a daemon and monitors software RAID devices (Linux MD).

raidmon starts to beep when a disk fails or while a RAID device is resyncing after an unclean shutdown.

Every event also triggers the email alert mechanism, which sends mail to one or more persons with the details of whats going on.

Pioneer Linux is an Ubuntu-based server-oriented distribution.
Enhancements:
- Technalign, Inc. has announced the release of Pioneer MigrationSERVER 2.1. Pioneer MigrationSERVER replaces previous versions and the 2.1 release staging for the Technalign Trailblazer Framework. MigrationSERVER 2.1 includes additional functions such as software RAID, DHCP, and the Squid Proxy Server to mention a few, which install simply by clicking a button on the web interface. Users can use either SSH or Webmin to manage their servers and both have been included as options for server management. Technaligns MigrationSERVER allows customers to drive down their server and acquisition costs.

FreeNAS 0.69b4 / 0.686.4 Stable gives a program which is to support FTP, NFS protocols, Software RAID(0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface. It takes less than 16MB once installed on Compact Flash, hard drive or USB key.

Make CD-ROM Recovery makes a bootable (El Torito) disaster recovery image (CDrec.iso), including backups of the linux system to the same CD-ROM (or CD-RW) if space permits, or to a multi-volume CD-ROM set. Otherwise, the backups can be stored on another local disk, NFS disk or (remote) tape.

After a disaster (disk crash or system intrusion) the system can be booted from the CD-ROM and one can restore the complete system as it was (at the time mkCDrec was run) with the command /etc/recovery/start-restore.sh

Disk cloning (clone-dsk.sh script) allows one to restore a disk to another disk (the destination disk does not have to be of the same size as it calculates the partition layout itself). A thrid script, restore-fs.sh, will restore only one filesystem to a partition of your choice, and the user can choose with which filesystem the partition has to be formatted.

Linux 2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels are supported, and if size of the kernel is not too big a boot floppy can be made, otherwise a 2.88 Mb boot floppy will be emulated on CD-ROM.

MkCDrec supports ext2 , ext3, minix, xfs , jfs, reiserfs file systems, LVM and software RAID (multiple devices). Each file system is backed up as a compressed tar archive (including the tar log). The compress program used is the users choice (compress, gzip, bzip2, lzop,...)

But there is more: msdos, fat, vfat and ntfs mounted partitions are recognized and are saved as compressed dumps (on CD, tape, etc.)
The user has the possibility to encrypt all backups with openssl if desired (see the Config.sh configuration file for more information).

To restore your system completely just boot from the first CD-ROM made by mkCDrec and type "/etc/recovery/start-restore.sh " to restore everything from CD. Automatic Disaster Recovery and One Button Disaster Recovery are supported by mkCDrec too.
With the clone-dsk.sh script one can restore selective a disk or partitions to another free disk.

mkCDrec supports IDE (inclusive ATA), SCSI disks, hardware RAID based disks (e.g. Compaq SMART2 Disk Array), LVM and software RAID. With an El-Torito CD-ROM you can boot from an IDE or SCSI based CD-ROM drive on IA32/64, powermac and x86_64 GNU/Linux based computer systems only.

Source Mage GNU/Linux distribution is based on a sorcerous metaphor of "casting" and "dispelling" packages, which we refer to as "spells".
This is a development ISO and potentially loaded with bugs and glitches. This is where you come in. We need your help to squash these bugs.
Please download, burn, and install this ISO to a spare partition, extra computer, or over your least favorite friends Windows partition. VMWare or bochs works too. Upon finding a glitch, please report it in bugzilla. No bug is too small, or too large.
Help shape the future of Source Mage! Download the Next Generation Testing ISO and install!
Enhancements:
- A "dependency" scheme was added to make sure you dont accidentally skip a vital step or do things in the wrong order.
- You can still override dependencies if you really know what youre doing.
- Spells are now installed in the background while you are busy selecting options.
- Software RAID support via mdadm was added.

INSERT (the Inside Security Rescue Toolkit) aims to be a multi-functional, multi-purpose disaster recovery and network analysis system. It boots from a credit card-sized CD-ROM and is basically a stripped-down version of Knoppix. It features good hardware detection, fluxbox, emelfm, links-hacked, ssh, tcpdump, nmap, chntpwd, and much more.
INSERT provides full read-write support for NTFS partitions (using captive), and the ClamAV virus scanner (including a fairly recent signature database and a GUI). It also has a network boot facility.
Main features:
- full read-write support for NTFS-partitions using captive
- support for various file system types: EXT2,EXT3,MINIX,REISERFS,JFS,XFS,NTFS,FAT,MSDOS,NFS,SMBFS,NCPFS,UDF,UFS,HFS,HFS+
- support for linux software RAID and LVM
- support for WLAN adapters
- network analysis (e.g. nmap, tcpdump)
- disaster recovery (e.g. parted, gpart, partimage, testdisk, recover)
- virus scanning (Clam Antivirus)
- computer forensics (e.g. chkrootkit, rootkit hunter)
- surf the internet (e.g. links-hacked, AxY FTP)
- network boot server to boot network boot enabled clients that cannot boot from the CD
- based on Linux kernel 2.4.27 and Knoppix 3.6