Mirroring the root disk of already installed machine

Dominic Marks dom at goodforbusiness.co.uk
Fri Sep 8 06:24:31 PDT 2006


Vladimir Terziev wrote:
> 	Hi hackers,
> 
> 	i have a machine running FreeBSD 5.4 . It has 2 HDDs. Recently the non-root HDD failed and lost all the data on it. Since the machine is working 24/7 i want to mirror its root disk (this one with the OS on it) in order to prevent a severe downtime and data loss.
> 
> 	Is there a safe way to do the above using gmirror ?

Indeed!

http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/

Dominic

> 	Thanks in advance!
> 
> 		Vlady
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