From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jun 12 15:29: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from thor.ghim.org (thor.ghim.org [209.249.182.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDEBE37B405 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 15:28:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from schvin@schvin.net) Received: from electra (electra.nexus [192.168.2.128]) by thor.ghim.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f5CMSh324255; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 22:28:43 GMT Received: by electra (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 12 Jun 2001 22:28:43 +0000 Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 22:28:43 +0000 From: George Lewis To: Rowan Crowe Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: keeping identical copy of second drive Message-ID: <20010612222842.I23911@schvin.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from rowan@sensation.net.au on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 08:24:53AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rowan Crowe (rowan@sensation.net.au) wrote: > Hello, > > I am just about to take delivery of a new 1RU machine which has identical > 20Gb drives, one of them in a removable caddy. Ideally I want the second > HD to be a mirror image of the first, either in real time or periodically > transferred over. A periodic dump(1) piped with ufsrestore(1M) would create an exact image of the disk to the second disk. That'd probably work pretty well for keep a hot spare disk around. George -- http://schvin.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message