From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 9 0:41:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.austclear.com.au (ns2.austclear.com.au [192.43.185.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A1FC37B408 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 00:41:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tungsten.austclear.com.au (tungsten.austclear.com.au [192.168.166.65]) by ns2.austclear.com.au (8.11.2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f997fD441514 for ; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 17:41:14 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from ahl@austclear.com.au) Received: from tungsten (tungsten [192.168.166.65]) by tungsten.austclear.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA13308; Tue, 9 Oct 2001 17:41:13 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200110090741.RAA13308@tungsten.austclear.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: vinum "backups" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 17:41:13 +1000 From: Tony Landells Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have two systems which are running (virtually) identical vinum mirrored configurations, and I'd like to back them up by copying an entire disk from each system to a third system, such that if one of the first two systems died completely, I could switch the disks around in the backup machine to replace it. ------------------- ------------------- | a | | b | ------------------- ------------------- | | | | ----- ----- ----- ----- |ad0| <-----> |ad2| |ad0| <-----> |ad2| ----- vinum ----- ----- vinum ----- | | | | | | ---------------- -- | backup to standby | | | | | v ----- ----- (a:ad0) |ad1| |ad2| (b:ad0) ----- ----- | | ------------------- | standby | ------------------- | ----- |ad0| ----- (system) The problem is that I'd like to at least validate that the filesystems on the backup disks pass basic tests (fsck, mount, ...) but since the systems have been setup identically, I'm concerned that the vinum definitions copied to standby:ad1 and standby:ad2 will "clash", causing one of the backups to get nuked. Any thoughts, anyone? Tony -- Tony Landells Senior Network Engineer Ph: +61 3 9677 9319 Australian Clearing Services Pty Ltd Fax: +61 3 9677 9355 Level 4, Rialto North Tower 525 Collins Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message