From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 12 15: 9:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC39737B423 for ; Sat, 12 May 2001 15:09:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 4259 invoked by uid 100); 12 May 2001 22:09:19 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15101.46223.299382.167745@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 17:09:19 -0500 To: sam Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making a mirrored emergency da1 In-Reply-To: <83222190@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG sam 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. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message