From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 5 10:32:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sage-american.com (sage-american.com [216.122.141.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 548B537B419 for ; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 10:32:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from SAGEONE (adsl-64-219-30-200.dsl.crchtx.swbell.net [64.219.30.200]) by sage-american.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA20211; Sat, 5 Jan 2002 12:32:23 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.20020105123220.01937458@mail.sage-american.com> X-Sender: jacks@mail.sage-american.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2002 12:32:20 -0600 To: Donnie Jones From: jacks@sage-american.com Subject: Re: Mirroring Hard Disk Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020105131711.61268d1e.donniejones18@yahoo.com> References: <3.0.5.32.20020105075715.01937458@mail.sage-american.com> <62178761821.20020104222538@telus.net> <3.0.5.32.20020105075715.01937458@mail.sage-american.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 I've seen that "mirror" and wondered about it. Have you tried it and is it a long process... I would assume more the first time, and then shorter updates...??? Many thanks to you and others who have responded... At 01:17 PM 1.5.2002 -0500, Donnie Jones wrote: >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 > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message