Clone disks

[[Darth] Snowbeam]

Oh, now this does sounds interesting. It is pretty much what I am looking
for. I'll look into it and try to test it out. Thanks for the info so
far. Any other info and option are appreciated.

On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Darin Perusich wrote:

> when you say "clone" do you mean mirroring? this can be accomplished
> using software raid that's built into the kernel. if you have 2 drives
> /dev/sda and /dev/sdb you can create a metadevice, /dev/md* of the
> slices/partitions. see the raidtools man pages for more details, man -k
> raid shoudl give you all the man pages. software raid is pretty simple
> to setup and works well. i have a raid1 (mirror) device setup on 2 SCA
> drives(hotswap). to test it i decided to pull one of the drives and it
> just kept on kicking. pretty cool.
> 
> 
> "[Darth] Snowbeam" wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all, something I would love to see discussed here are clone disks. I am
> > looking for the pros and cons of using clone disks. I actually want a
> > better understanding of them. Over the last couple of months, I have found
> > I now have some extra disks lying around that could be used as alternate
> > boot sources should something happen to my primary disk. Some of my
> > queries are:
> > 
> > - Solaris allows for clone disks and alternate disk boot up. Does Linux?
> > - Can clone disks be a form of back up? By this I mean, can a clone of
> >   your primary disk and partitions be made on a daily basis?
> > 
> > Usually I would go out an ddo the research myself, but as it's something
> > that just came up, I thought I would pose my questions here as part of
> > such research. Thanks for any info anyone can offer.
> > 
> > ---------
> > - [Darth] Snowbeam
> > 
> > "It is not fear that keeps the elephant wary of the mouse, it is his
> > wisdom that reminds him not to underestimate his opponent" -me

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- [Darth] Snowbeam

"It is not fear that keeps the elephant wary of the mouse, it is his
wisdom that reminds him not to underestimate his opponent" -me