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Date:      Tue, 12 Jun 2001 22:28:43 +0000
From:      George Lewis <schvin@schvin.net>
To:        Rowan Crowe <rowan@sensation.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: keeping identical copy of second drive
Message-ID:  <20010612222842.I23911@schvin.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106130814390.14815-100000@velvet.sensation.net.au>; from rowan@sensation.net.au on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 08:24:53AM %2B1000
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106130814390.14815-100000@velvet.sensation.net.au>

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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

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