From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 15 4:30:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39BFC37B40C for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 04:30:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 84953 invoked by uid 100); 15 Aug 2001 11:30:08 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15226.23872.500433.814891@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 06:30:08 -0500 To: "Kory Hamzeh" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup suggestions In-Reply-To: <74278771@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ 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 Kory Hamzeh types: > 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. > > 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. How about software raid? After all, that's pretty much what you're trying to do. FreeBSD comes with raid software - vinum. Check out it's man page. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message