Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:00:28 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: Andriss <andriss@andriss.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum Concerns (was: SCSI drive mirroring question) Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.990915085553.830A-100000@CENTRAL> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909141140250.88361-100000@netmint.com>
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On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Andriss wrote:
> I thought there would be a simple utility (part of freebsd) that
> could just copy da0 to da1 (with all slices and boot info) but
> guess not...
dd could be used for this, provided that the mirror disk was identical in
size/geometry to the source disk. It could be bigger, or have a different
geometry, but how usable the mirror disk would be in an emergency I don't
know. watch out for the effects of open files though.
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