From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Apr 20 7:33:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from freesbee.wheel.dk (freesbee.wheel.dk [193.162.159.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97E2837B423 for ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 07:33:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jesper@skriver.dk) Received: by freesbee.wheel.dk (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C68865D60; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:33:01 +0200 (CEST) Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 16:33:01 +0200 From: Jesper Skriver To: danny@i-p-d.nl Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum Message-ID: <20010420163301.A72364@skriver.dk> References: <3AE05058.28191.14F5EC5@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3AE05058.28191.14F5EC5@localhost>; from danny@i-p-d.nl on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 03:06:00PM +0200 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B88 9CE8 66E9 E631 C9C5 5EB4 22AB F0EC F956 1C31 X-PGP-Public-Key: http://freesbee.wheel.dk/~jesper/gpgkey.pub Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 03:06:00PM +0200, danny@i-p-d.nl wrote: > I have been trying to setup vinum to mirror my first harddisk on a > second identical harddisk. I get the feeling that it is not possible to > mirror the first disk, as it is my FreeBSD bootdisk. Is that right? > > I want to have a working FreeBSD-machine with a second > harddisk, that is working as an exact copy of the first disk, so if my > first drive fails, the second disk takes over, or at least has a most > recent copy. Will that work with vinum, or isn't that possible? You can mirror all filesystems but the root filesystem, you can create a identical fs on the seconds drive, and update it manually with dd(1) whenever you have make a change to the root filesystem (which you probably wont do often anyway). /Jesper -- Jesper Skriver, jesper(at)skriver(dot)dk - CCIE #5456 Work: Network manager @ AS3292 (Tele Danmark DataNetworks) Private: FreeBSD committer @ AS2109 (A much smaller network ;-) One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message