From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 15 23:23:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ADA137B40B for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 23:23:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7G6N5h27659; Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:23:05 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <15226.23872.500433.814891@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 08:23:49 +0200 (CEST) From: Micke Josefsson To: Mike Meyer Subject: Re: Backup suggestions Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Kory Hamzeh 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 On 15-Aug-01 Mike Meyer wrote: > 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. > >