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Date:      Sat, 12 May 2001 17:09:19 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        sam <sam2539@the-beach.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Making a mirrored emergency da1
Message-ID:  <15101.46223.299382.167745@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <83222190@toto.iv>

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sam <sam2539@the-beach.net> types:
> Machine has 2 drives same size, same kind, etc...
> 
> How do I back-up da0 > da1 so that in the event da0 fails I can just 
> fire up the server on da1?

As discussed here just recently, dd when the systems is inactive will
do the trick.

You might check into using vinum for software raid as well. That
should provide both better reliability and better performance.

	<mike
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