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Date:      Sat, 5 Jan 2002 13:17:11 -0500
From:      Donnie Jones <donniejones18@yahoo.com>
To:        jacks@sage-american.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mirroring Hard Disk
Message-ID:  <20020105131711.61268d1e.donniejones18@yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20020105075715.01937458@mail.sage-american.com>
References:  <62178761821.20020104222538@telus.net> <3.0.5.32.20020105075715.01937458@mail.sage-american.com>

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On Sat, 05 Jan 2002 07:57:15 -0600
jacks@sage-american.com wrote:

> My main objective was to have the 2nd HD keep up with a current copy of the
> first HD and in the event the first (main one) failed, then I could just
> switch HD and reboot into the HD2... sounds like a good idea. Just need the
> right tools... 
> 
> Been looking at dump too, but thought there was a tool that would keep the
> two HDs sync'd, i.e., when a file changed on HD1, the HD2 would do the
> same. ...not sure Vinum will do this as it wants to copy partitions....(at
> first reading).


What about the program mirror?  ( /usr/ports/ftp/mirror/ )

You could use it to copy the / filesystem and use cron to update it periodically.

It does this by creating a mirror of the filesystem through ftp.  This may seem like an odd way to do it, but it may get you what you need....

-Donnie

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