Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 06:30:08 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Kory Hamzeh" <kory@avatar.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup suggestions Message-ID: <15226.23872.500433.814891@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <74278771@toto.iv>
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Kory Hamzeh <kory@avatar.com> types: > I am setting up a system running 4.3-RELEASE. This system will have two IDE > drives, each being about 30G. I would like to write a cron jobs to copy all > of the filesystems from the first physical drive to the second one every > night. I want to make sure the second drive is an exact duplicate of the > first, so in case of a crash, I can make the second drive the master and > boot off of it. > > I will probably have 3 filesystems and a swap partition on the first drive. > I know a raid controller with do this for me, but I prefer to keep the > hardware are simple as possible, mostly for reliability reasons. How about software raid? After all, that's pretty much what you're trying to do. FreeBSD comes with raid software - vinum. Check out it's man page. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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