From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jun 12 16:20:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com (cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com [24.13.23.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1B5737B401 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:20:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Received: from Brian (cx175057-b.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com [24.13.23.147]) by cx175057-a.ocnsd1.sdca.home.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f5CNJsA00819; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:19:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bri@sonicboom.org) Message-ID: <009a01c0f395$d5ee1300$3324200a@sonicboom.org> From: "Brian" To: "Alex Huppenthal" , "George Lewis" , "Rowan Crowe" Cc: References: <20010612222842.I23911@schvin.net> <010501c0f390$0ee67b80$1900a8c0@d7k> <011501c0f390$822b4d50$1900a8c0@d7k> Subject: Re: keeping identical copy of second drive Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:17:16 -0700 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-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org you willing to live with losing work since the last rsync? If not, rsid mirroring is the answer. Brian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Huppenthal" To: "Alex Huppenthal" ; "George Lewis" ; "Rowan Crowe" Cc: 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" > To: "George Lewis" ; "Rowan Crowe" > > Cc: > 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" > > To: "Rowan Crowe" > > Cc: > > 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/ > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message