From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 17 6:56:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.menzor.org (themoonismadeofgreenchease.dk [195.249.147.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29AD514C87 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 06:56:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from morten@seeberg.dk) Received: from SOS ([194.239.79.165]) by www.menzor.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA24157 for ; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:21:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from morten@seeberg.dk) Message-ID: <06f301bf489e$c832d370$de00000a@SOS> Reply-To: "Morten Seeberg" From: "Morten Seeberg" To: Subject: Mirroring boot-disk?? Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:55:33 +0100 Organization: SWAMP MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.5600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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