From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 5 10:17:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp012.mail.yahoo.com (smtp012.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E231C37B41A for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 10:17:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from ci592716-c.valleyst1.ky.home.com (HELO Kaiser) (24.251.253.28) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 5 Jan 2002 18:17:08 -0000 Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 13:17:11 -0500 From: Donnie Jones 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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 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