From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 19 15:38:50 2003 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 66EA937B401 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:38:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8392F43E4A for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 15:38:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([172.16.0.95]) by mail.adelphia.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h0JNe7ep000997; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 18:40:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E2B36D8.9040108@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 18:38:00 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021127 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant Peel Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tweo SCSI drives. References: <007401c2c012$9a944db0$6501a8c0@grant> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Grant Peel wrote: > OK, While I am asking truely basic questions..... > > I have two drive sa0 and sa1 > > Both have freebsd loaded on them (on the same machine of course) > > I want to mirror the first drive to the second one each night. > > 1) How do I 'see' the contents of the second drive? man mount You'll need to know the partition layout of the second drive, then you can mount the partitions to wherever you want using mount. A lot of people will make mountpoints off of /mnt (such as /mnt/usr /mnt/root /mnt/var) > 2) Does anyone know where to find a decent mirror script? (Once I learn how > to see/read/write to the second drive, I can write one :-)). I recommend rsync, which will speed things up by only copying the files that have changed, actually it will only copy the changed parts of files that have changed, making things very fast. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message