From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 24 11:46:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.telestream.com (mail.telestream.com [205.238.4.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FF8737B4C5 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:46:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (keith@localhost) by mail.telestream.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e9OIkDA04778; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:46:14 -0700 Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 11:46:13 -0700 (PDT) From: To: GVB Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum procedures.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a good place to start. Between vinumvm.org and a few posts to this list my vinum was setup without too much headache at all. http://www.vinumvm.org/ keith ================================= Keith W. At the helm My non work related site www.cydonia.net ================================= On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, GVB wrote: > I have not been able to find any comprehensive > setup/configuration/recovery procedures for vinum, which is my reason for > posting the questions here. > > I have two 30 gig drives which I would like to mirror. My ideal setup > would be this: > > 512 meg swap partition and the rest of the drive mounted as / > The second drive being an exact replica of this first drive. > If drive one crashes, I should be able to simply plug the second drive in > as the master drive and boot my system as if nothing happened. > > Is this how vinum works? Does it work with boot partitions or does it > require a boot partition to be non-vinum? > > What are your recommendations? > > Thanks! > > GVB > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message