From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 1 22:25:35 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7D7316A469 for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 22:25:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: from pearl.ibctech.ca (pearl.ibctech.ca [208.70.104.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B5C613C46A for ; Fri, 1 Jun 2007 22:25:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from iaccounts@ibctech.ca) Received: (qmail 41653 invoked by uid 1002); 1 Jun 2007 22:25:34 -0000 Received: from iaccounts@ibctech.ca by pearl.ibctech.ca by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (spamassassin: 2.64. Clear:RC:1(208.70.107.100):. Processed in 24.919623 secs); 01 Jun 2007 22:25:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.210?) (steve@ibctech.ca@208.70.107.100) by pearl.ibctech.ca with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 1 Jun 2007 22:25:08 -0000 Message-ID: <46609CF0.1010102@ibctech.ca> Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 18:25:52 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Antonio References: <466090B1.2040903@tsyns.com> In-Reply-To: <466090B1.2040903@tsyns.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Realtime File System Replication On FreeBSD" How reliable is it? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 22:25:35 -0000 Antonio wrote: > Hi all, > > I found this site with instructions to setup what is basically a network > RAID-1: > > http://phaq.phunsites.net/2006/08/11/realtime-file-system-replication-on-freebsd/ > > > My question is: What experience does anyone have using this solution on > a production environment? > I will appreciate any thoughts or advise you may provide. I have used vinum for quite a while, never, ever had a problem. In fact, in RAID-1, I had a motherboard and a disk fail simultaneously. I popped the good drive into another box, and we were right back up after some very minor modifications. Of course, this is no solution to rotating backups though, but in addition to it, it handles well, easy to set up, and easy to document your setup. I also use it on a backup machine that has 6 72GB SCSI drives to span them together so that in addition to my tape backups, I have a 300GB storage facility (running on an old CacheFlow 3000) that I run Amanda on to hold my most critical information. vinum (gvinum) has worked good for me for a good couple years, at least. Steve