From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 4 21:47:17 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 5950B37B401 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 21:47:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 282B043F85 for ; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 21:47:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id F1D0E51A6E; Sat, 5 Apr 2003 15:17:10 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 15:17:10 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: Christopher Turner Message-ID: <20030405054710.GK89009@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20030404204659.Y90594@thought> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8kI7hWEHMS8Z+7/0" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030404204659.Y90594@thought> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 05:47:17 -0000 --8kI7hWEHMS8Z+7/0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Friday, 4 April 2003 at 20:47:36 -0800, Christopher Turner wrote: > 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 cou= ld > 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 ap= ps > 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? =20 Of those, Vinum is obviously the way to go. The others don't give you up-to-date consistency. > Are there any other programs that would suit me? RAIDFrame is an alternative. > What would be a good way to initialize the second hard drive for > mirroring? If you use Vinum, see http://www.vinumvm.org/. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers --8kI7hWEHMS8Z+7/0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+jm3eIubykFB6QiMRAvkaAJ9gXnXtn6D1JNdLDPwichFHtnrmmwCfZmhw e21rAxE57pmSVni3RlIDfts= =QHlc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8kI7hWEHMS8Z+7/0--