From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 13:37:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from marlo.eagle.ca (marlo.eagle.ca [209.167.16.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F3CB37B417 for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 13:37:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from Bob (staff.eagle.ca [209.167.16.15]) by marlo.eagle.ca (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g04Lbo788742; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:37:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freymann@eagle.ca) From: "ScaryG" To: jacks@sage-american.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 16:38:19 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Mirroring Hard Disk Message-ID: <3C35DA7B.9672.B80563@localhost> In-reply-to: <3.0.5.32.20020104152824.01946370@mail.sage-american.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 4 Jan 2002 at 15:28, jacks@sage-american.com wrote: > Am building a new box that will contain two identical hard disks. Plan > to install FreeBSD on the first hard disk and would like to mirror to > the second HD. > > I know this has been covered somewhere, but I have searched through > the archives and don't see anything about mirroring.... what is the > best way to do this..??? Thanks! Vinum comes to mind, but when I looked at it about 2 years ago I found it rather puzzling. We bought a Mylex RAID card instead (since we had SCSI drives) and just setup the card with the two drives at RAID1 and voila. Seemed much easier than figuring out Vinum. For IDE I would suggest you read up on Vinum. Documentation is likely better today and Greg Lehey (sp?) who looks after Vinum can be found on these lists as well. gf =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Gerry Freymann - Senior Systems Manager eagle.ca Internet Services www.eagle.ca Voice: 905-373-9313 Fax: 905-373-1801 http://www.eagle.ca/support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message