Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 13:29:09 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Adam Mackler <mackler@dewline.com> Cc: zoonie <zoonie@zilch.org>, jesse reynolds <jesse@va.com.au>, OrbitalNet Office <darren@office.orbitalnet.co.uk>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mirroring Message-ID: <19991012132908.S78191@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.991011200116.27316L-100000@barter.dewline.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910111949270.16625-100000@localhost> <Pine.BSF.3.96.991011200116.27316L-100000@barter.dewline.com>
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On Monday, 11 October 1999 at 20:02:01 -0400, Adam Mackler wrote: > On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, zoonie wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, jesse reynolds wrote: >>> At 7:29 PM -0400 11/10/1999, zoonie wrote: >>>> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, OrbitalNet Office wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, does anyone know of a Disk mirroring system for FreeBSD, for example >>>>> like the "Symantec Ghost" for PC? >>>> >>>> funny you should ask, i'm looking into the same thing. there are a few >>>> mirroring packages in the ports collection that work with ftp and look >>>> kinda decent going by the description but one of them has a security >>>> problem that was just posted to bugtraq recently. that package is mirror >>>> 2.9. i searched through the mailing lists and found out about a package >>>> called rsync that is SSH aware and i'm in the process of installing it to >>>> try it out. if anybody else has any suggestions please let us know... >>>> >>> Zoonie, I think you're talking about file mirroring, but I think >>> Darren's talking about disk mirroring, ie redundant disks on the one >>> server. >>> >>> Vinum looks good, written by Greg Lehey, author of "the complete >>> freebsd" (for disk mirroring and other volume management >>> technologies). >>> >>> I think rsync is the way to go for file mirroring. >> >> oops, looking at the message again it does say "disk"...as for disk >> mirroring you are right, vinum would be good. rsync looks pretty good for >> file mirroring, i'm busy getting that going right now... >> > vinum's not ready for prime time is it? Sure, as long as you don't use some of the newer features. We still have some problems with RAID-5 on *some* systems (not on mine, unfortunately, so finding the bug is a real pain), and you can still shoot yourself in the foot if you configure it correctly, but people have been using it for over a year without problems. Mirroring is RAID-1, and that's been working since May 1998. > is there a way to mirror disks over the network, securely? Not yet. It's on the Vinum wish list. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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