On Friday, 4 April 2003 at 20:47:36 -0800, Christopher Turner wrote: > Hello, > > I'm setting up a new machine that will need hard drive redundancy. I'm > looking for the most efficient way to keep a second hard drive that i could > quickly use to return the machine to functionality(without a disparity in > data between the two) should the main one fail. > > I've looked into rsync, rdump, and vinum but i'm uncertain of the most > applicable method for my situation. > > I have two 40G hard drives. I will be running database, www, and mail apps > on this machine. I don't plan on using the second drive for anything but > backing up the first one and being able to use it as primary if the first > one fails. > > Which application appears to be best for me?
Of those, Vinum is obviously the way to go. The others don't give you up-to-date consistency. > Are there any other programs that would suit me? RAIDFrame is an alternative. > What would be a good way to initialize the second hard drive for > mirroring? If you use Vinum, see http://www.vinumvm.org/. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers
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