From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 30 9:27:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF4F137B401 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:27:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from enterprise.thenetnow.com (enterprise.thenetnow.com [205.150.82.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D77C643E3B for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 09:27:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grant@thenetnow.com) Received: from grant (dsla127.ody.ca [216.240.4.127]) by enterprise.thenetnow.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id g9UHM9f61648 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:22:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from grant@thenetnow.com) Message-ID: <00bc01c28039$ebab2bb0$6401a8c0@grant> Reply-To: "Grant Peel" From: "Grant Peel" To: Subject: SCSI -RAID 5 again Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:29:32 -0500 Organization: The Net Now MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 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 Sorry all, the previous mail was sent prematurely... Hi all, Over the past few weeks I have been setting up and tweaking DUMP to dump each of my 4 main filesystems (/ /var /home /usr). Progress is going well (currently set to do full dump 1x per week and do a level 1 each night). I still have a couple of questions. First, I am dumping all 4 filesystems to /home/backup. I have the nodump flag set for the /home/backup directory, and so for it seems to honor it for all the files in that directory (which is what I want, so as to avois dumping previous dumps inside that directory). My question here is, if I read the man correctly, it SHOULD recursively not dump all files in that directory, is this correct? Second, I want to add a second drive. Currently, this box only has 3 SCSI drives on a RAID 5 card. My question is, when I add the second drive (which will be an IDE drive about 40 GIG), can I configure it to take the dumps directly, so as to create a mirror drive. So here is what I 'want' to happen: Each Monday early morning: dump writes full a full backup of / to /dev/ad0s1/ Each Monday early morning: dump writes full a full backup of /usr to /dev/ad0s1/usr Each Monday early morning: dump writes full a full backup of /var to /dev/ad0s1/var Each Monday early morning: dump writes full a full backup of /home to /dev/ad0s1/home Then, at early morning of all other days, incremental backups (changed files only) are written to the correct destination directories on the second drive. In effect, I want to create a mirror, will this work, and would the command lines (in cron) look like: dump -0u -h0 -f /dev/ad0s1 / dump -0u -h0 -f /dev/ad0s1/var /var dump -0u -h0 -f /dev/ad0s1/usr /usr dump -0u -h0 -f /dev/ad0s1/home /home An the last question is, if I want to make the second drive bootable (in the event the raid system dies), do I need to load (from scratch) the OS (FreeBSD 4.4) on the new drive first, or, just partition and disklabel it creating the needed filesystems? TIA, -Grant To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message