From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 13 20:10:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA17015 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 20:10:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA17010 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 20:10:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scooter.quickweb.com (scooter.quickweb.com [199.212.134.8]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id UAA25641 for ; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 20:10:21 -0700 Received: (from mark@localhost) by scooter.quickweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id XAA15447; Sat, 13 Apr 1996 23:06:33 -0400 Date: Sat, 13 Apr 1996 23:06:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Mayo To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: my hard disk is about to die.. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was wondering if anyone would care to make a suggestion on what's the best way to replace a hard disk that is about to go belly up.. I don't know how it happened, but since Christmas my BSD box has become more and more important... it routes several Class C's, does DNS, Gated, and a whole bunch of WWW related crap. Bottom line, I need to MINIMIZE down time. It's an IDE, and I thought about replacing it with a SCSII, but then I thought maybe I could throw mount a second hard disk to the system (IDE) and recreated the entire file structure of the first disk on the new one, then just swap out the disks and turn the machine back on.. but then I thought maybe just a tar file would do. ANyone have any ideas? (I wouldn't mind using a SCSII replacement, but I'm thinking just throwing in another IDE will save time.) Thanks, -Mark :%t$sig -- Oops, thought I was in vi.. ------------------------------------------- | Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com | | C-Soft www.quickweb.com | -------------------------------------------