Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:11:24 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Ashley Moran <work@ashleymoran.me.uk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NetBSD disk backup over network Message-ID: <440D867C.5030400@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <200603071255.10729.work@ashleymoran.me.uk> References: <200603071255.10729.work@ashleymoran.me.uk>
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Ashley Moran wrote: > I just saw this slashdotted article: > http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/dermouse.html > > Just to satisfy my curiosity, is it the sort of thing that can be implemented > as a GEOM layer? The idea is bloody clever but sounds like a bit of a hack > right now. > You can already do this with GEOM. On your server node, create a sparse file using dd, that is the same size or bigger than the partition you would like to back up. Then set it up with ggated. Now, on your machine with the partition that needs mirroring (backing up), use ggatec to connect to the backup node's shared sparse file you previously created. Then, use gmirror to mirror your partition to the now local ggatec'ed device. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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