Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 22:24:41 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gmirror THEN geli, correct? Message-ID: <20090405202441.GA88269@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <64c038660904051158s56ef5e82m51ca3c545770487@mail.gmail.com> References: <64c038660904051158s56ef5e82m51ca3c545770487@mail.gmail.com>
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--jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 12:58:46PM -0600, Modulok wrote: > List, >=20 > I'm looking for a confirmation on the order: When setting up a (root > partiton) gmirror+geli, what is the propper order? e.g: gmirror the > disks and THEN initialize geli on the /dev/mirror partitions? Is this > correct? That works. I tried it.=20 But it felt slow. So I dropped the mirroring, and used rsync running from a cron job at night to keep the primary and secondary disks (with encrypted partitions) in sync.=20 This has a downside that my backup can be up to 24 hours out of date, but as a plus it provides me with an up to 24 hour window to recover accidentally deleted files. from the second disk. :-) It's a good tradeoff, IMO. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAknZE4kACgkQEnfvsMMhpyWVNwCghDXDYcZEqBb9racySTSXJwKd II0AnR8suwzmccKXXOZ1rKvDvGSvGzxc =s24I -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP--
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