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Date:      Thu, 3 Jun 1999 10:46:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Zhihui Zhang <zzhang@cs.binghamton.edu>
To:        Daniel Malament <danielm@j51.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: drive mirroring
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.3.96.990603104542.28480C-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199906031449.KAA05250@j51.com>

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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



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