From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 23 20:43:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCB8914E1F for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 20:43:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA25732; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 15:12:59 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id PAA43170; Wed, 24 Mar 1999 15:12:58 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19990324151258.Y425@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 15:12:58 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Brad Lisoweski , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk Mirroring with FreeBSD References: <3.0.5.32.19990323231401.00a38ae0@pop.cgocable.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990323231401.00a38ae0@pop.cgocable.net>; from Brad Lisoweski on Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 11:14:01PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 23 March 1999 at 23:14:01 -0500, Brad Lisoweski wrote: > > Hello Once Again, > > I've got a client who is serious about keeping his server up 24x7 and wants > to mirror his hard drive onto another separate hard drive on a separate > controller. So basically on the primary IDE channel, the production drive > will sit and on the secondary IDE channel, the backup mirror will live. > > Is there an easy way to accomplish this? Yes. > If it could also cut over automatically in the case of a drive > failure, that would be best. Use Vinum. It doesn't "cut over", it uses whatever disks are available. If both drives are available, it uses both to increase performance; if one fails, it just carries on with the other. Take a look at http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html for more details. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message