From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 10:28:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp2.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp2.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2E6937B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:28:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp2.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f0FIQ8p12923; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:26:11 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A634083.DCC04D4E@mail.iowna.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:25:07 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Josh Paetzel Cc: Dave VanAuken , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Poor mans backup solution required References: <3A630DD2.26136B9@mail.iowna.com> <00ae01c07f2d$92324dc0$6100000a@vladsempire.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Josh Paetzel wrote: > I think that vinum could be the solution that you are looking for. You > could add a second drive and then use vinum to mirror them. Even better, > the drives could be on two different controllers (one primary and one > secondary) for the "ultimate" in data storage reliability. That's not a backup, however. It's a good idea, but it serves a different purpose. With a vinum mirror, what do you do if a user comes to you complaining that they've lost a file (accidentally deleted it)? Vinum mirrors won't help with that, you'll need backups on some different media. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message