Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 21:48:52 -0500 From: "Stephen Hoover" <shooverfbn@442spot.com> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Questions about vinum and failure of root partition Message-ID: <002f01c23cf3$ccc2c070$6602a8c0@swbell.net> References: <023801c23cc0$61cbaa80$320210ac@dcicorp.com> <20020806010049.GP83171@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 8:00 PM Subject: Re: Questions about vinum and failure of root partition > > Could some give me a brief rundown of how to recover the data from a > > mirrored drive (partition) if the primary drive fails and the > > FreeBSD config is lost? > > It's automatic. > > You don't need to do anything. The configuration is stored on the > drives themselves. When Vinum starts, it checks what it has left and > what it can do with it. If you lose one half of your mirror, then it > will continue with the other. > > Greg Hmmm ok, I must be missing something here. Let's say I had /usr and /home mirrored. Now the root partition (that is the boot partition) is NOT mirrored and the first drive fails. (wiping out the FreeBSD config altogether.) Assuming that I have installed a new disk, partitioned it to match the partitions on the second drive, reinstall FreeBSD and run vinum - it will see the vinum volume on the second drive and automatically rebuild the mirror? I guess I am confused because I thought all the config was saved to /dev/vinum on the first drive? The drive that died? Sorry for being dense - new area for me :) Stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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