From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 5 23:42:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA11044 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 23:42:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from maize.engin.umich.edu (maize.engin.umich.edu [141.212.78.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA11035 for ; Wed, 5 Aug 1998 23:41:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from amiu@engin.umich.edu) Received: from localhost (amiu@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by maize.engin.umich.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id CAA02780 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 1998 02:41:43 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 02:41:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Afonso Miu To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How to do whole disk back-up Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I want to setup a secondary server which will automatically update itself from the primary server. Like making a copy of the main server hard drive. So in case of the primary server fails, I can unplug the network cable from the primary server and plug it into the secondary server. Everything keeps running. setting: FreeBSD 3.0 same hardware configuration for the primary and second server secondary can mount any the server partitions ethernet 100Mbp Can i use cpio or tar to do that? Can you give me a example? Thank you To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message