From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 15: 6:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A768F37B41F for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 15:06:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from SAGEONE (adsl-64-219-30-200.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [64.219.30.200]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA07198; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 17:06:36 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020104170633.01912b90@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2002 17:06:33 -0600 To: "ScaryG" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: Mirroring Hard Disk In-Reply-To: <3C35DA7B.9672.B80563@localhost> References: <3.0.5.32.20020104152824.01946370@mail.sage-american.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 Oh, yeah... Vinum... thanks, I'll check it out. At 04:38 PM 1.4.2002 -0500, ScaryG wrote: > >On 4 Jan 2002 at 15:28, jacks@sage-american.com wrote: > >> Am building a new box that will contain two identical hard disks. Plan >> to install FreeBSD on the first hard disk and would like to mirror to >> the second HD. >> >> I know this has been covered somewhere, but I have searched through >> the archives and don't see anything about mirroring.... what is the >> best way to do this..??? Thanks! > > Vinum comes to mind, but when I looked at it about 2 years ago I >found it rather puzzling. > > We bought a Mylex RAID card instead (since we had SCSI drives) and >just setup the card with the two drives at RAID1 and voila. Seemed >much easier than figuring out Vinum. > > For IDE I would suggest you read up on Vinum. Documentation is >likely better today and Greg Lehey (sp?) who looks after Vinum can be >found on these lists as well. > >gf >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- >Gerry Freymann - Senior Systems Manager >eagle.ca Internet Services www.eagle.ca >Voice: 905-373-9313 Fax: 905-373-1801 >http://www.eagle.ca/support >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message