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I am using my raspi for my smart home monitoring and I don't want any system crashes because the SD card fails. So is there a way to build a raid 1 with the SD card + an additional USB stick (or maybe 2 additional sticks with one hotspare)?

Maybe with mdadm?

Would be great because if the SD fails I have the USB stick as an backup an enough time to replace the card.

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The best thing I know to prevent SD card corruption is using Raspberry in readonly mode.(You can poweroff without damage and backing it up 1 time per month)

You can use the USB stick to write data output because you cannot write on SD card in this mode.

Link here https://learn.adafruit.com/read-only-raspberry-pi/overview

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Solved it. I use initramfs now to boot to md0 (mdadm raid). Works for now, thanks! :-)

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    It would be very nice if you explain how do yo setup the RAID. I would like to do the same.
    – Ingo
    Jan 17, 2019 at 20:24
  • you can simply check the scripts mentioned in this blogpost @Ingo
    – jonny
    Jan 17, 2019 at 20:28

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