Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:17:16 -0700 From: "Brian" <bri@sonicboom.org> To: "Alex Huppenthal" <alex@aspenworks.com>, "George Lewis" <schvin@schvin.net>, "Rowan Crowe" <rowan@sensation.net.au> Cc: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: keeping identical copy of second drive Message-ID: <009a01c0f395$d5ee1300$3324200a@sonicboom.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0106130814390.14815-100000@velvet.sensation.net.au> <20010612222842.I23911@schvin.net> <010501c0f390$0ee67b80$1900a8c0@d7k> <011501c0f390$822b4d50$1900a8c0@d7k>
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you willing to live with losing work since the last rsync? If not, rsid
mirroring is the answer.
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Huppenthal" <alex@aspenworks.com>
To: "Alex Huppenthal" <alex@aspenworks.com>; "George Lewis"
<schvin@schvin.net>; "Rowan Crowe" <rowan@sensation.net.au>
Cc: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: keeping identical copy of second drive
> You won't have a precise mirror with rsync.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Huppenthal" <alex@aspenworks.com>
> To: "George Lewis" <schvin@schvin.net>; "Rowan Crowe"
> <rowan@sensation.net.au>
> Cc: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 4:36 PM
> Subject: Re: keeping identical copy of second drive
>
>
> > I've used rsync with some good success. Between (2) 450 Mhz PIII's
systems
> > with Barracuda drives, we kept about 2 GB of users, configuration data
and
> > websites sync'd to 15 minute intervals. I setup a private 'admin' LAN
> > between the two systems to keep network performance on the customer side
> > unaffected by the backup traffic.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "George Lewis" <schvin@schvin.net>
> > To: "Rowan Crowe" <rowan@sensation.net.au>
> > Cc: <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 4:28 PM
> > Subject: Re: keeping identical copy of second drive
> >
> >
> > > Rowan Crowe (rowan@sensation.net.au) wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I am just about to take delivery of a new 1RU machine which has
> > identical
> > > > 20Gb drives, one of them in a removable caddy. Ideally I want the
> second
> > > > HD to be a mirror image of the first, either in real time or
> > periodically
> > > > transferred over.
> > >
> > > A periodic dump(1) piped with ufsrestore(1M) would create an exact
> > > image of the disk to the second disk. That'd probably work pretty
> > > well for keep a hot spare disk around.
> > >
> > > George
> > >
> > > --
> > > http://schvin.net/
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