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Subject: Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?
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At Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:54:02 -0400,
David Robillard wrote:
> Sounds like a good idea indeed. I've always followed Ralf S.
> Engelschall's instructions at http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/
> which involves using dump(8) to transfer the data onto the second disk
> once it's setup as a gmirror provider.

this has worked for me in the past:

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html

regards
toni
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