From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 3 22:36:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E874D16A41C for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 22:36:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alec@thened.net) Received: from splinter.bowdoin.edu (splinter.bowdoin.edu [139.140.181.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8071D43D1D for ; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 22:36:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from alec@thened.net) Received: by splinter.bowdoin.edu (Postfix, from userid 12008) id BC99EC1C3; Fri, 3 Jun 2005 18:36:34 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2005 18:36:34 -0400 From: Alec Berryman To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050603223634.GA13927@thened.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20050603222620.GA708@hiMolde.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050603222620.GA708@hiMolde.no> X-Ned-Wuz-Here: Yes X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-GPG-Fingerprint: 3DB5 8785 53D9 8BF4 5049 B6B9 02E7 7FD9 881C 85C4 X-GPG-Key: http://www.thened.net/~alec/static/alec.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Subject: Re: RAID-1 as back-up X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 22:36:38 -0000 --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hans F. Nordhaug on 2005-06-04 00:26:20 +0200: > I would like to use RAID-1 as a back-up solution. If one of the disk > breaks I would like my server to continue to run from the other > disk. Just as fair warning, you should not rely on RAID as a 'backup' like you would rely on writing to removable media and storing off-site. If someone cracks your computer and you want to go back to known good snapshot, you're out of luck; if you accidently overwrite something, RAID won't help you. > I'm running 5.3 - what do you recommend - gvinum, ccd, others? What > is the definitive howto for the recommend solution. You should use gmirror. There's an excellent guide - http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/. I've been using gmirror for about half a year and have had no problems. --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCoNtyAud/2YgchcQRArN0AJ4gAq94JmfzDcmRD5zsWnQlLV5lJACfYUUS St9WTIqz2Uo8A2TjPtxWhqo= =LKze -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qDbXVdCdHGoSgWSk--