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Date:      Mon, 11 Oct 1999 20:02:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Adam Mackler <mackler@dewline.com>
To:        zoonie <zoonie@zilch.org>
Cc:        jesse reynolds <jesse@va.com.au>, OrbitalNet Office <darren@office.orbitalnet.co.uk>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mirroring
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.991011200116.27316L-100000@barter.dewline.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910111949270.16625-100000@localhost>

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vinum's not ready for prime time is it?

is there a way to mirror disks over the network, securely?

On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, zoonie wrote:

> oops, looking at the message again it does say "disk"...as for disk
> mirroring you are right, vinum would be good.  rsync looks pretty good for
> file mirroring, i'm busy getting that going right now...
> 
> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, jesse reynolds wrote:
> 
> > Zoonie, I think you're talking about file mirroring, but I think 
> > Darren's talking about disk mirroring, ie redundant disks on the one 
> > server.
> > 
> > Vinum looks good, written by Greg Lehey, author of "the complete 
> > freebsd" (for disk mirroring and other volume management 
> > technologies).
> > 
> > I think rsync is the way to go for file mirroring.
> > 
> > cheers
> > jesse
> > 
> > At 7:29 PM -0400 11/10/1999, zoonie wrote:
> > >funny you should ask, i'm looking into the same thing.  there are a few
> > >mirroring packages in the ports collection that work with ftp and look
> > >kinda decent going by the description but one of them has a security
> > >problem that was just posted to bugtraq recently.  that package is mirror
> > >2.9.  i searched through the mailing lists and found out about a package
> > >called rsync that is SSH aware and i'm in the process of installing it to
> > >try it out. if anybody else has any suggestions please let us know...
> > >
> > >On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, OrbitalNet Office wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi, does anyone know of a Disk mirroring system for FreeBSD, for example
> > > > like the "Symantec Ghost" for PC?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance
> > > > Darren Brown
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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