From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jun 3 7:58:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from sol (cs1-gw.cs.binghamton.edu [128.226.171.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B1D36152A3 for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 07:58:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu) Received: from localhost (zzhang@localhost) by sol (SMI-8.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA28627; Thu, 3 Jun 1999 10:46:43 -0400 Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 10:46:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Zhihui Zhang To: Daniel Malament Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: drive mirroring In-Reply-To: <199906031449.KAA05250@j51.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Daniel Malament wrote: > This is probably the wrong place to ask this, but since there have been a > bunch of discussions of RAID, I thought I'd give it a shot... > No flames please, but pointers would be appreciated. > > We're running FreeBSD 2.2.8 on a system with two 13 gig IDE drives, and > we'd like to have them mirror each other. I can do 'tar -cvpf - -C / / | > tar xpf -C /bak' every night (the second drive is mounted on /bak and has > identical partitions), but that won't remove files that have been deleted > from the main drive. Am I right in assuming that there's already a simple > solution out there in FreeBSDland? For example, is there a software-only > version of RAID that works on IDE drives? > Check at http://www.lemis.com/vinum/. Maybe that is what you want. Regards, -Zhihui To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message