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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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