Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 09:46:01 +1100 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copying partitions Message-ID: <20000307094601.B346@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200003050432.UAA31562@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 08:32:48PM -0800 References: <200003050432.UAA31562@ptavv.es.net>
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On Saturday, 4 March 2000 at 20:32:48 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > With the low price of disk drives and the high price of both tape > drives and media, I have decided that a disk is the most cost > effective backup medium I can buy. > > I have a FreeBSD STABLE system which now has two 13.6 GB disks and I > want to make the partitions on one copies of those on the other. > Except for the root partition, Vinum looks like a reasonable option, > but there have been recent reports on the stable mailing list that the > Vinum in 3.4 has a major bug that might make it unreliable. I haven't heard this. Could you point me to it? > Is Vinum a safe way to do this? I intend for the second disk to act > as my backup and reliability is critical. We have recently identified a problem in revive, but it doesn't affect normal operation. I'll commit a fix for the revive problem probably later this week. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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