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 ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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