From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 14 8:50:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from netmint.com (netmint.com [207.106.21.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F7DB14BFD for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 08:50:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andriss@andriss.com) Received: from localhost (andriss@localhost) by netmint.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA89911 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:50:01 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 11:49:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Andriss X-Sender: andriss@netmint.com To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Vinum Concerns (was: SCSI drive mirroring question) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello, Someone suggested I use vinum for SCSI drive mirroring. Basically, the mirroring does not have to be up-to-minute, it can be done nightly, as long as it truely mirrors (copies) the source drive to the destination drive. I thought there would be a simple utility (part of freebsd) that could just copy da0 to da1 (with all slices and boot info) but guess not... It seems vinum is the only solution if I want to have drive mirroring. Would it handle a fresh clean drive (da1) and automatically mirror da0 onto it? I never worked with vinum (or ccd) so I wouldn't know. Is vinum stable enough for a production box? If there is another solution that could handle copying the drives, please mention it or tell me where to find info about it. Thank you very much, Andriss - -- ______________________________________________________________ Andrey Kholodenko http://www.andriss.com Download My Public PGP Key From http://www.andriss.com/pgp.txt ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBN95uqSQe9jf/ODl9AQFKlwP8CqoM8EN5/IvQJDSWY2IKOw+cesBuoSG6 FKft6itGqPA/cUFMHDzm5sk1fKCTPuRG/49E6eWqdDoMk68SWzLsxFupVqLRygap lmGZgasPE1DZ84cG9ncl01xRgsy58raAfAsA7Q52dAjPVgXzHVLFoqyz8H4IANBe sRdW2ghxObY= =mdhi -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message