From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 11:17:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E859C37B401 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 11:17:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from horkos.telenet-ops.be (horkos.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 505B843FB1 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 11:17:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from n.b@myrealbox.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by horkos.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id E98A483BFE for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 20:17:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from cronos.home.vsb (d515230CA.kabel.telenet.be [81.82.48.202]) by horkos.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BF183C72 for ; Tue, 6 May 2003 20:17:33 +0200 (CEST) From: Guy Van Sanden To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1052245053.17199.0.camel@cronos.home.vsb> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4-1tex Date: 06 May 2003 20:17:33 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Simple mirror / bootmanager X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 18:17:36 -0000 Hello guys How can I install the bootmanager to a disk? The disk is ad1 (primary slave) and is only intended to be booted when the first disk is removed (so becoming ad0 at that point). It should be immediately bootable when made primary (e.g. in another machine) What I want to do is this. I have two disk of the same size (give or take a couple of kilobytes), but with a different geometry. Only the first disk is used (contains separate / swap /var /tmp /usr /home /data). What I want to do is use the second disk as a mirror by creating the same slice layout, tarring the contents of the original disk and rsyncing them to the second disk once a day. If my first disk fails, I can simply put the second disk as master or even put it in another machine until the server is rebuilt. I don't want to use software mirroring (with vinum), because of the performance hit and complexity. I can do all of this, but I don't know how to get the bootmanager on it. The system is FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE on A PII-333 with two 40 GB disks. Thanks for any help.