Re: Disk mirroring

[Oki DZ <okidz@bdg.pindad.com>]

Alvin Oga wrote:
> 
> hi ya
> 
> best way ???
> 
> raid1 mirroring... ( assumes same/identical partition sizes )
>         - anything you put on disk1  will get mirror'd to disk2
>         -
>         - if you accidentally erase /foo.txt ... it gets erased on disk2
>         too ... ( i see no point to that ...but... some folks like it )

The second disk is about twice in size; the partitions might be in
different sizes.
> 
> manually ( via cron ) backing up disk1  to disk2... is a good thing...

Via cron would be better, I think.
 
> depending on what you want on the backup disks... tar is better ???
>         tar zcvf /mnt/backup_disk/backup.$date.tgz /etc /root /home

I want to have the second disk bootable (via a floppy if needed). That's
why I asked about rsync.

Oki