From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 15 10:51:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D94CE37B400 for ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:51:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mark8 (hutch-748.hutchtel.net [206.10.71.48]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id MAA32395; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:51:22 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <00eb01c07f34$d1811ae0$6100000a@vladsempire.net> From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Bill Moran" Cc: "Dave VanAuken" , References: <3A630DD2.26136B9@mail.iowna.com> <00ae01c07f2d$92324dc0$6100000a@vladsempire.net> <3A634083.DCC04D4E@mail.iowna.com> Subject: Re: Poor mans backup solution required Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:50:38 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Josh Paetzel wrote: > > > I think that vinum could be the solution that you are looking for. You > > could add a second drive and then use vinum to mirror them. Even better, > > the drives could be on two different controllers (one primary and one > > secondary) for the "ultimate" in data storage reliability. > > That's not a backup, however. It's a good idea, but it serves a > different purpose. > With a vinum mirror, what do you do if a user comes to you complaining > that they've lost a file (accidentally deleted it)? Vinum mirrors won't > help with that, you'll need backups on some different media. > > -Bill > You are right. I am sorry, I should've payed more attention to the question. Sorry Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message