From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 4 20:47:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 183AC37B401 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:47:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.contemplation.org (adsl-207-212-133-17.dsl.scrm01.pacbell.net [207.212.133.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F2FD43F93 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:47:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from christopher@contemplation.org) Received: by mail.contemplation.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 38FF8122AC9; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:47:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.contemplation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31555191223 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:47:36 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:47:36 -0800 (PST) From: Christopher Turner X-X-Sender: drumline@thought To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030404204659.Y90594@thought> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: vinum, rsync, or rdump? which is better for me? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 04:47:40 -0000 Hello, I'm setting up a new machine that will need hard drive redundancy. I'm looking for the most efficient way to keep a second hard drive that i could quickly use to return the machine to functionality(without a disparity in data between the two) should the main one fail. I've looked into rsync, rdump, and vinum but i'm uncertain of the most applicable method for my situation. I have two 40G hard drives. I will be running database, www, and mail apps on this machine. I don't plan on using the second drive for anything but backing up the first one and being able to use it as primary if the first one fails. Which application appears to be best for me? Are there any other programs that would suit me? What would be a good way to initialize the second hard drive for mirroring? Thanks! -- Christopher Turner christopher@contemplation.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"