From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 14 22: 1:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13E82156C3 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 22:01:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (uucp@localhost) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.9.2/8.9.2/Debian/GNU) with UUCP id PAA08772; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:00:54 +1000 (EST) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (central.apana.org.au [203.9.107.245]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA24296; Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:03:05 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:00:28 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: Andriss Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Vinum Concerns (was: SCSI drive mirroring question) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Fido: Andrew MacIntyre, 3:620/243.18 | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message