Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:55:33 +0100 From: "Morten Seeberg" <morten@seeberg.dk> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Mirroring boot-disk?? Message-ID: <06f301bf489e$c832d370$de00000a@SOS>
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Hi, Im supposed to be in charge of a large FreeBSD installation this weekend, and our plan was to mirror the bootdisk on all our servers, but the guy whom I put in charge of finding how to do it, didn´t really do his homework, so now Im asking: I´ve just searched through 8 months of questions@freebsd.org letters, and i´m not sure about the capabilities of VINUM and CCD. Actually I´m a bit confused to say the least :) Is it at all possible to mirror the bootdisk, so that if a disk fails during production time, nothing happens? Can I boot on the secondary disk afterwards, if the primary fails? If I can, could you give me a hint to what Im supposed to be looking at? CCD, VINUM, other, and if you have tried it, some pointers to save me some time. If it is not possible, then how would you do it? Some of you without RAID controllers must have some way of keeping your bootdisk/system safe? Pointers please? (Do you just backup your bootdisk every 15 minutes or the like?) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ /\/\orten $eeberg, Systems Consultant @ Merkantildata - Enterprise Solutions #echo 'System Administrators suck :)' > /dev/console To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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