NetBSD disk backup over network
Dag-Erling Smørgrav
des at des.no
Tue Mar 7 14:47:03 UTC 2006
Ashley Moran <work at ashleymoran.me.uk> writes:
> I just saw this slashdotted article:
> http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200603/dermouse.html
>
> Just to satisfy my curiosity, is it the sort of thing that can be
> implemented as a GEOM layer? The idea is bloody clever but sounds
> like a bit of a hack right now.
Set up ggated on the "backup server":
# truncate -s16G /backup/foo.img
(assuming the size of the disk you want to mirror is 16 GB)
# echo "foo RW /backup/foo.img" >/etc/gg.exports
where foo is the name or IP address of the client.
start ggated:
# ggated /etc/gg.exports
start ggatec on the client:
# ggatec create bar /backup/foo.img
where bar is the name or IP address of the server.
now you can create a mirror on the client:
# gmirror load
# gmirror label -b prefer baz /dev/ggate0
# gmirror insert -p 1000 baz /dev/whatever
# newfs -U /dev/mirror/baz
# mount -t ufs /dev/mirror/baz /mnt
(baz can be any name you want to give your mirror)
if /dev/whatever on the client dies, you can simply mdconfig
/backup/foo.img on the server and mount it to extract data. If you
take care not to modify it, you can easily restore the volume on the
client:
# ggatec create bar /backup/foo.img
# gmirror load
# gmirror forget baz
# gmirror insert -p 1000 baz /dev/whatever
gmirror will immediately start resynchronizing the mirror; you can
follow its progress with 'gmirror status'.
DES
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