Mirroring a server

[Leo J Mauler]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 19:45:00 -0600 (CST) Duane Attaway
<dattaway at dattaway.org> writes:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Jason Crowe wrote:
> 
> > All that to ask the best way to mirror a server.  :) (at least 
> > it's not spam)
> 
> Best way or the quickest?
> 
> I do it the wrong way and the quickest way possible:
> 
> cat /dev/hda > /dev/hdc
> cat /dev/hdb > /dev/hdd

Evil!  

Worthy of Simon and manservant Hecubus!  :)
 
> That would make an identical copy of your two drives 
> on the primary channel onto the secondary channel.  It 
> will work regardless of hard drive sizes only if the new 
> drives are larger.  No need to format, repartition, or 
> any of that.  The new drives will appear to be the same 
> size as the older ones in every respect.
> 
> Other members of the list will tell you how evil that is, 
> but I say hard drives are cheap these days.

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