From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 11:10:55 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB85037B401 for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:10:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from solomon.goinfologistics.com (solomon.goinfologistics.com [64.161.49.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C27C243FDF for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2003 11:10:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@info-logix.com) Received: (qmail 6450 invoked by uid 85); 7 Aug 2003 18:10:55 -0000 Received: from bsd@info-logix.com by Solomon.goinfologistics.com by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.12 (spamassassin: 2.31. . Clear:SA:?(0/0):. Processed in 0.062424 secs); 07 Aug 2003 18:10:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO origin.office.local) (64.161.53.49) by solomon.goinfologistics.com with SMTP; 7 Aug 2003 18:10:55 -0000 From: Hank Wethington To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1060279922.26539.11.camel@admin.office.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.0 Date: 07 Aug 2003 11:12:02 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Vinum on an existing system X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2003 18:10:56 -0000 Greetings! I have recently taken over a machine (FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE 7/31/03) that is a mail server (qmail, imap, apache2, pop3, etc) and due to the companies relience upon the machine, want to use vinum to mirror the drive. I've been reading the vinim information and a great site about setting it up. However, one question remains. It seems as though it should have been setup from them start. Can an existing installation be converted to vinum withouth reinstalling everything or should I just setup a cron job to dump the drive contents to the other dirve. Both drives are IDE 40GB. Here is the df on the main drive, as the second one hasn't even been formatted. Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 7225214 2207318 4439880 33% / /dev/ad0s1f 14985070 268 13785998 0% /usr/home /dev/ad0s1e 15483630 33702 14211238 0% /var procfs 4 4 0 100% /proc Swap is 768mb The machine is about to be put into production where it will host 50+ domains and about 2500 mail accounts. Your help and input is appreciated -- Hank Wethington