also sprach Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.01.29.0403 +0000]: > Why not mirror the whole drive? > > and then make it bootable with fdisk right? > > No, you use lilo or grub.
If you mirror the drive, you also mirror the boot sector. You can only do this if the drives are the same size though. > >Does this mean it also takes with it all the program's / servers I've > >currently installed? Like mysql and bacula? > > This is a non-trivial issue. Databases need guaranteed integrity and use > specialized backup software with journaling filesystems. Just shut down the running processes. > Incidently, I'm suprised anyone is still using a Jaz drive. Are > not USB flash drives cheaper per byte? They might also boot in > your computer. Jaz drives are MO drives and thus can be written too a lot more than flash; they're more reliable. > If on the other hand you are using old hardware because its the > right geek thing to do, then just ignore this comment. He may also be happy with it and use the money for other things... -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : proud Debian developer, author, administrator, and user `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~madduck - http://debiansystem.info `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing systems "without music, life would be a mistake." - friedrich nietzsche
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