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Date:      Sat, 05 Jan 2002 12:32:20 -0600
From:      jacks@sage-american.com
To:        Donnie Jones <donniejones18@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mirroring Hard Disk
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.20020105123220.01937458@mail.sage-american.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020105131711.61268d1e.donniejones18@yahoo.com>
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I've seen that "mirror" and wondered about it. Have you tried it and is it
a long process... I would assume more the first time, and then shorter
updates...???

Many thanks to you and others who have responded...

At 01:17 PM 1.5.2002 -0500, Donnie Jones wrote:
>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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Best regards,
Jack L. Stone,
Server Admin

Sage-American
http://www.sage-american.com
jacks@sage-american.com

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