From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 5 15:20:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1AEE544BE for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 15:20:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-208-170-118-165.dialup.HiWAAY.net [208.170.118.165]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.3/8.9.0) with ESMTP id RAA16156; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 17:20:44 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA40433; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 17:20:35 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <200002052320.RAA40433@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Dr David Hingston" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: SCSI Drives In-reply-to: Message from "Dr David Hingston" of "Sun, 06 Feb 2000 11:12:27 +1300." <085101bf7026$1827e880$0a00a8c0@p400> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 17:20:35 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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