SUMMARY: Ways to keep a bootable system disk online?

From: Ruth H Woods (rwoods@census.gov)
Date: Thu Jul 22 1999 - 10:46:43 CDT


Many thanks to all those who responded, what a great group!

Mark Almeida, Martin Brooks, Gary Carr, Carlo Cosolo, Ray Delaney,
Mike DeMarco, Authur Dunh, David Evans, Mark Fromn, Linda Gee, Mark
Hargrave, Bob Hayes, Colin Melville, Mark Neill, Richard Smith, Michael
Wang, Stuart Whitby, Brad Young. Hope I didn't miss anyone.

The majority of respondents use ufsdump/ufsrestore and that is what we are
now using. Many included scripts with the response, I will forward
any/all the scripts if anyone wants them.

> >
> >Looking for suggestions of ways to keep a second system disk almost
> >current. Ran into problems with Volume Manager 2.5 mirroring. Considering
> >a daily cron job to copy the disk, using dd or ufsdump/ufsrestore and
> >changing the vfstab file. Is anyone out there doing this? Someone
> >suggested using DiskSuite 4.2 , but concerned about yet another volume
> >management tool on a E6500 with multiple A5000s and A5200s.
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