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Date:      Thu, 6 May 1999 08:38:50 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Walter Hafner <hafner@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: High availability and limited budget
Message-ID:  <19990506083850.G40359@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <srjhfprepb7.fsf@hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>; from Walter Hafner on Wed, May 05, 1999 at 01:19:56PM %2B0200
References:  <srjhfprepb7.fsf@hprbg5.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>

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On Wednesday,  5 May 1999 at 13:19:56 +0200, Walter Hafner wrote:
>
> I need to build a high availability system, but have only a very limited
> budget.
>
> ...
>
> Using FreeBSD, a could imagine a sufficient fist step:
>
>   - buy two identical machines,
>   - put the disk from one machine into the other
>   - put the diskless machine in some cabinet and lose the key. :-)
>   - mirror Disks with ccd
>   - if a disk dies, proceed with the other one.

With ccd, this requires a reboot and reconfiguration.  You'd be better
off using Vinum.

>   Note: I don't want to ose vinum, because of its beta stage.

Which beta stage?

Greg
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