Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 13:17:11 -0500 From: Donnie Jones <donniejones18@yahoo.com> To: jacks@sage-american.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mirroring Hard Disk Message-ID: <20020105131711.61268d1e.donniejones18@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020105075715.01937458@mail.sage-american.com> References: <62178761821.20020104222538@telus.net> <3.0.5.32.20020105075715.01937458@mail.sage-american.com>
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On Sat, 05 Jan 2002 07:57:15 -0600 jacks@sage-american.com wrote: > My main objective was to have the 2nd HD keep up with a current copy of the > first HD and in the event the first (main one) failed, then I could just > switch HD and reboot into the HD2... sounds like a good idea. Just need the > right tools... > > Been looking at dump too, but thought there was a tool that would keep the > two HDs sync'd, i.e., when a file changed on HD1, the HD2 would do the > same. ...not sure Vinum will do this as it wants to copy partitions....(at > first reading). What about the program mirror? ( /usr/ports/ftp/mirror/ ) You could use it to copy the / filesystem and use cron to update it periodically. It does this by creating a mirror of the filesystem through ftp. This may seem like an odd way to do it, but it may get you what you need.... -Donnie _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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