From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 4 22:14:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from priv-edtnes09-hme0.telusplanet.net (mtaout.telus.net [199.185.220.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDE1A37B41A for ; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 22:14:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from FRED ([142.173.43.70]) by priv-edtnes09-hme0.telusplanet.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.01 201-253-122-122-101-20011014) with ESMTP id <20020105061448.GFXD16355.priv-edtnes09-hme0.telusplanet.net@FRED>; Fri, 4 Jan 2002 23:14:48 -0700 Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 22:25:38 -0800 From: Sean Ellis X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.51) Reply-To: Sean Ellis Organization: yes X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <62178761821.20020104222538@telus.net> To: "ScaryG" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mirroring Hard Disk In-Reply-To: <3C35DA7B.9672.B80563@localhost> References: <3C35DA7B.9672.B80563@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Hello, Friday, January 04, 2002, 1:38:19 PM, you wrote: > On 4 Jan 2002 at 15:28, jacks@sage-american.com wrote: >> Am building a new box that will contain two identical hard disks. Plan >> to install FreeBSD on the first hard disk and would like to mirror to >> the second HD. > We bought a Mylex RAID card instead (since we had SCSI drives) and > just setup the card with the two drives at RAID1 and voila. Seemed > much easier than figuring out Vinum. When I recently asked about cloning a hard drive I was offered a couple of leads for a daily mirroring of a hard drive. I'm not sure if mirroring the drives on a daily basis would be suitable for what jacks is asking about, but I'd be interested for any comment on using rsync or dd as means of keeping two drives relatively synchronized. > Gerry Freymann - Senior Systems Manager -- Regards, Sean mailto:sellis@telus.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message