From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 15 5:58:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from locutus.omen.com.au (reggae-08-67.nv.iinet.net.au [203.59.3.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4525515115 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 05:57:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from deece@newmillennium.net.au) Received: from picard (picard, [203.8.109.107]) by locutus.omen.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA01272 for ; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 20:59:30 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from deece@newmillennium.net.au) Message-ID: <000201beff79$adca6200$6b6d08cb@omen.com.au> From: "Alastair D'Silva" To: References: Subject: Re: Vinum Concerns (was: SCSI drive mirroring question) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 13:00:16 +0800 Organization: New Millennium Networking MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: Andriss To: Sent: Tuesday, 14 September 1999 23:49 Subject: Vinum Concerns (was: SCSI drive mirroring question) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hello, > > Someone suggested I use vinum for SCSI drive mirroring. Basically, > the mirroring does not have to be up-to-minute, it can be done > nightly, as long as it truely mirrors (copies) the source drive > to the destination drive. > > I thought there would be a simple utility (part of freebsd) that > could just copy da0 to da1 (with all slices and boot info) but > guess not... > > It seems vinum is the only solution if I want to have drive > mirroring. Would it handle a fresh clean drive (da1) and automatically > mirror da0 onto it? I never worked with vinum (or ccd) so I wouldn't > know. Is vinum stable enough for a production box? > > If there is another solution that could handle copying the drives, > please mention it or tell me where to find info about it. Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't dd do this? __ __ _____ Alastair D'Silva / \ / \ / ____) Networking Consultant deece@newmillennium.net.au ____/ /\ \/ /\ \/ / New Millennium Networking 0413 485 733 (_____/ \__/ \__/ http://www.newmillennium.net.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message