backup drive scheme

Jason Stewart jstewart at rtl.org
Wed Nov 12 08:04:19 PST 2003


Noah wrote:
> FreeBSD 4.8 -STABLE
> 
> I currently have two 120GB SCSI drives in a machine.  one drive is the main
> disk and the other drive is a complete exact copy of the first drive.
> 
> I am using rsync every 24 hours to backup drive 1 to drive 2.  can somebody
> recommend another backup solution here?  Things are working fine right now. 
> just trying to figure out other solutions?
> 
> - Noah
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How about RAID 1 with vinum? Alternatively you could go out and buy a 
hardware based RAID controller for a few bucks if you're serious about 
performance.

Jason



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