hi ya lance
mirroring and backup is not quite the same ...
am gonna assume that you wanna backup your first 30Gb system... onto
your new 2nd 30Gb disks
- best way is to: ( varies from person to person )
- put the 2nd 30GB onto a different server
to protect your data/disk agains
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001, Serafim Zanikolas wrote:
>> the best way to mirror /dev/hda?
~ for me, it works handy to uselike this :
tar clf - . | ( umask 0; cd /mnt; tar xvf - )
best wishes
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:59:05AM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
>
> I just purchased a second 30G drive that I want to use as part of my backup
> strategy. I now have two 30G drives in
> my computer. I don't have a RAID card. I have /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. What
> is
> the best way to mirror /
RAID is not a backup solution, it is a hardware failure solution. You will
not be protected against user error. Running a mirror with a delay gives you
a chance to recover accidentally deleted files.
For backups:
dd: Perfect copy. Only works with identical partitions. Slow (copies empty
space). No
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, nate wrote:
> i have never experienced a drive failure with software
> raid1 so i don't know what to expect if it were to
> occur.
You'll get a line in dmesg and /proc/mdstat will note the failure. It is
necessary to poll /proc/mdstat and send out the alert when a drive fa
> I just purchased a second 30G drive that I want to use as part of
> my backup strategy. I now have two 30G drives in my computer. I
> don't have a RAID card. I have /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. What is the
> best way to mirror /dev/hda? I have thought of
>
> dd
> cp
> rsync
>
> but am not sure whi
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