From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 8 20:46:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (fedde.littleton.co.us [216.17.174.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F8037B6E7 for ; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 20:46:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cfedde@fedde.littleton.co.us) Received: from fedde.littleton.co.us (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fedde.littleton.co.us (8.11.0/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id e793kh003901; Tue, 8 Aug 2000 21:46:43 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200008090346.e793kh003901@fedde.littleton.co.us> To: jesse reynolds Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum newbie configuration questions In-Reply-To: From: Chris Fedde Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 21:46:43 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 9 Aug 2000 12:08:59 +1000 jesse reynolds wrote: +------------------ | Swap question: how does vinum support swap? Is swap just another | vinum volume? And should swap be mirrored? Or should I have two | unmirrored swap areas, one on each disk? +------------------ Why would you want to mirror swap? Just define swap partitions as slices on each drive. They don't have to be part of the vinum slices +------------------ | Also, does anyone have any tips on manually creating a backup root | filesystem that could be manually booted from in case of hardware | failure on the main root filesystem? I assume there would be issues | with the devices and where things are mounted etc... +------------------ What I've done in the past for this scenario is first to be sure that both partitions are realy the same size and then simply use dd to copy the live partition to the dead one on a periodic basis. Though it might be quicker to use something like pax since it can be configured to ignore files that have not changed. Be sure to think about things like the contents of /etc/fstab and any backup scripts that you are using. chris -- Chris Fedde 303 773 9134 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message