From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 14 19:11:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.avatar.com (ns1.avatar.com [199.33.206.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BA0F37B40B for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 19:11:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kory@avatar.com) Received: from tomcat (tomcat.avatar.com [199.33.206.20]) by ns1.avatar.com (8.12.0.Beta8/8.12.0.Beta8) with SMTP id f7F2A9UM022281 for ; Tue, 14 Aug 2001 19:10:13 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kory Hamzeh" To: Subject: Backup suggestions Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 19:11:08 -0700 Message-ID: <005f01c1252f$8bd0eba0$14ce21c7@avatar.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-reply-to: <20010815014124.28643.qmail@web5303.mail.yahoo.com> X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I am setting up a system running 4.3-RELEASE. This system will have two IDE drives, each being about 30G. I would like to write a cron jobs to copy all of the filesystems from the first physical drive to the second one every night. I want to make sure the second drive is an exact duplicate of the first, so in case of a crash, I can make the second drive the master and boot off of it. That is the best tool to use for this? tar? cpio? dump? dd? I will probably have 3 filesystems and a swap partition on the first drive. I know a raid controller with do this for me, but I prefer to keep the hardware are simple as possible, mostly for reliability reasons. Any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Kory To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message