Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 15:55:57 -0500 From: Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Lost drive under BSD...Now what? Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20011114154354.00973940@pop.netzero.net>
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Ok, here's the scenario. Drive 1 was originally formatted and treated as the main system drive and contains root, /tmp, /pub (for our lan internal http junk) the swap partition, and /var, drive 2 contains /home and all of the user directories plus all of the file storage for the file server part of the computer in a slice called /files. Now, here's the catch. Drive 1 runs fine, drive 2 is DOA. I have a backup of both drives effective midnight yesterday. Drive 2 died at about 5am, before anyone came in. Thankfully the server did a failover to the secondary file server so nobody noticed that the main file server was down except me. Now, here's the catch. Both machines are designed to replicate back and forth between each other so that in the event of failure of one of them, the other is 100% current. Both machines are backed up at night via tape. So, what is my best bet once I replace this second drive and format it out? Should I restore the slices and file structure on drive 2, or just wait and see if under replication the failover server recovers all that data onto the main server. Or should I take option C. Replace drive D, format and reinstall the main server, restore the whole blasted thing from tape, then let it replicate? I want to make this as painless as possible. So long as my backup server doesn't die, I'll be fine. Anyone got any ideas? Both machines are identical AMD-Athlon 800's, 512 ram, 60gig WD HD's x2, riding on an Asus motherboard. Neither computer is running Raid. Your help would be more than welcome. Thanks. This file server is running on FreeBSD 4.0 just so you know. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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