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Date:      Sat, 05 Feb 2000 17:20:35 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        "Dr David Hingston" <dlh@xtra.co.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SCSI Drives 
Message-ID:  <200002052320.RAA40433@nospam.hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Dr David Hingston" <dlh@xtra.co.nz>  of "Sun, 06 Feb 2000 11:12:27 %2B1300." <085101bf7026$1827e880$0a00a8c0@p400> 

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"Dr David Hingston" writes:
> Hi There People
> 
> I have FreeBSD 3.3 19991103 Stable on a 1 Gig SCSI drive.  (Pentium 100, =
> 64M RAM, 2 NICS, used as webserver and firewall)  I have a second SCSI =
> drive, same size, make, which I'd like to put on the SCSI bus.  =20
> 
> Ideally I'd like to mirror the first drive to it, and use this as a =
> backup  drive.  I cannot find any documentation about this.  Can this be =
> done with FreeBSD software?  Any directions or instructions?
> 
> Alternatively if I put it on the SCSI bus how can I use it as a second =
> HDD?
> 
> I am awaiting the complete BSD, but that is probably weeks away...
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I think in your situation I'd look into vinum and establish the disks 
as a mirrored pair. This way you never have to manually do the backup. 
When/if one fails the other should automatically take over.

Buy a tape drive for backups.

--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net
=====================================================================
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