From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 21 11:14:30 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D596A16A419 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:14:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D08A13C457 for ; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:14:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l8LBEPee014227; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:14:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) with ESMTP id l8LBEPWA014224; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:14:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:14:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: Subhro Kar In-Reply-To: <46F39005.1050208@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20070921131332.H14163@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <46F39005.1050208@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: dhaneshk k , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cheaper backup mechnism for a server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:14:30 -0000 > > Hello DharneshK, > > You can try to create a Mirror using RAID. You can either create a > software or a hardware (recommended) managed Mirror. In case of a disk both are software. while the "software" one you talking about is gmirror - very portable and easy to use contrary to BIOS-based "hardware" one. and with gmirror is very easy to take whole disk snapshot