From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Nov 3 13:26:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA13098 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:26:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.cioe.com (ns1.cioe.com [204.120.165.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA13093 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 13:26:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@ns1.cioe.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by ns1.cioe.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA01939 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Tue, 3 Nov 1998 16:26:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from steve) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 16:26:47 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Ames Message-Id: <199811032126.QAA01939@ns1.cioe.com> To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: disk mirroring? Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Can anyone recommend a non-hardware method of disk mirroring? What I'm looking for is something akin to disk mirroring under NT4. ie I add another drive, declare it and an old disk part of a mirror set and data gets replicated and then subsequent writes go to both drives. The goal is so that if one drive crashes I can do a minimal amount of work and get things running on the mirror. I looked at vinum in the 3.0 release but it doesn't _appear_ to be able to do this. I would have to start over using vinum volumes and the boot sections would still have to be maintained seperately. If this just isn't possible, how about a clean way of during periodic whole volume copies? -Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message