From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 21 11:42:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net [169.207.1.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1D3437B405 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:42:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell.core.com (IDENT:2525@shell.voyager.net [169.207.1.89]) by out4.mx.nwbl.wi.voyager.net (8.11.1/8.11.4/1.7) with ESMTP id g0LJgB533569; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:42:11 -0600 (CST) Received: (from dpoland@localhost) by shell.core.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/1.3) id g0LJgAq12426; Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:42:10 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:42:10 -0600 From: Doug Poland To: Ralph Huntington Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: remote backups Message-ID: <20020121134210.A12061@polands.org> References: <1011639293.3c4c63fd410b0@mail.mohawk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <1011639293.3c4c63fd410b0@mail.mohawk.net>; from fbsd@mohawk.net on Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 01:54:53PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 01:54:53PM -0500, Ralph Huntington wrote: > I have a client who wants us to do a backup scheme on a remote server > to a dedicated (for the particular host) drive such that the backup > drive could be installed in the backed-up host and booted as the > original drive in the event of catastrophic failure of the original. > > Is there a way to do that? I've looked at various backup schemes and > devices and I don't see anything like that. There doesn't seem to be > very much even for backing up to a drive rather than to a tape device. > > Someone suggested 'mirroring' the drive, but I'm not sure what they > really meant or how that might be done. > See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vinum/ for details on how to mirror the two drives to achieve your goal. -- Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message