From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 22 18:29:34 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 815AF14C57 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 1999 18:29:29 -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 KAA29659; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 10:56:03 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA33597; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 10:56:01 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 10:56:01 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Alexander Maret Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vinum and disaster recovery Message-ID: <19990723105601.B84734@freebie.lemis.com> References: <91DA20EC3C3DD211833400A0245A4EA9BA1086@erlangen01.axis.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <91DA20EC3C3DD211833400A0245A4EA9BA1086@erlangen01.axis.de>; from Alexander Maret on Thu, Jul 22, 1999 at 09:38:17AM +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 Thursday, 22 July 1999 at 9:38:17 +0200, Alexander Maret wrote: > Hi, > > I have a mirrored vinum drive on a 3.2-R System. Everything works > fine meanwhile but what happens if a drive fails? I think vinum > will go on running only using the working drive. But how can I > get the old data which is on the working drive on a brandnew drive > to reactivate mirroring? Is "vinum start" enough for vinum to check > both drives and reactivate mirroring? Not on a brand new drive. It would work if you removed the drive and replaced it. I need to get my act together and document how to do this, which will also involve some code. Watch this space. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html 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