Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 15:12:58 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brad Lisoweski <blisowes@cgocable.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Disk Mirroring with FreeBSD Message-ID: <19990324151258.Y425@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990323231401.00a38ae0@pop.cgocable.net>; from Brad Lisoweski on Tue, Mar 23, 1999 at 11:14:01PM -0500 References: <3.0.5.32.19990323231401.00a38ae0@pop.cgocable.net>
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On Tuesday, 23 March 1999 at 23:14:01 -0500, Brad Lisoweski wrote: > > Hello Once Again, > > I've got a client who is serious about keeping his server up 24x7 and wants > to mirror his hard drive onto another separate hard drive on a separate > controller. So basically on the primary IDE channel, the production drive > will sit and on the secondary IDE channel, the backup mirror will live. > > Is there an easy way to accomplish this? Yes. > If it could also cut over automatically in the case of a drive > failure, that would be best. Use Vinum. It doesn't "cut over", it uses whatever disks are available. If both drives are available, it uses both to increase performance; if one fails, it just carries on with the other. Take a look at http://www.lemis.com/vinum.html for more details. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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