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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
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