From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 5 16: 8:57 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 73E501593B for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 16:08:52 -0700 (PDT) (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 IAA20540; Thu, 6 May 1999 08:38:50 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA54304; Thu, 6 May 1999 08:38:50 +0930 (CST) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 08:38:50 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Walter Hafner Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: High availability and limited budget Message-ID: <19990506083850.G40359@freebie.lemis.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: ; from Walter Hafner on Wed, May 05, 1999 at 01:19:56PM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF 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 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 -- 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