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From: "Brandon Valentine" <brandon@brandonvalentine.com>
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Subject: Re: Method to mirror a single partition across the net
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On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Steve Kargl
<sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
> I've read the Handbook's chapter on GEOM, gmirror(1), geom(8), ggated(8),
> and ggatec(8), and I've search the web for a solution to the following
> issue.
>
> I would like to mirror a single partition on system A to a partition on
> system B.  It would appear a combination of gmirror and ggated would work,
> but I haven't found any example on setting up two systems.

Steve,

You may find the following two articles helpful:

http://phaq.phunsites.net/2006/08/11/realtime-file-system-replication-on-freebsd/
http://blackholemedia.net/blog/2008-01-02-Using_gmirror_ggate_and_freevrrpd_to_create_a_high_availability_enviroment.html

Hope this helps,

-- 
Brandon D. Valentine
http://www.brandonvalentine.com