Re: Migrating to gmirrored RAID1

2008-08-20 Thread Henry Karpatskij
On 20.8.2008, at 10.48, DA Forsyth wrote: Good for you. I see I'm a bit late coming in with my advice, which is to follow the instructions at http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2005/11/10/FreeBSD_Basics.html?page=1 with a few mods because you (and I) were not building a new machine. This is the

Re: Migrating to gmirrored RAID1

2008-08-19 Thread Henry Karpatskij
Thanks a lot folks, I managed to get the server working, only one file could not be read from the bad disk, but it wasn't required. It took hours to do it and it certainly will remind me next time I choose to be lazy and install a server to non-mirrored disk. :-) -- Henry Karpatskij

Re: Migrating to gmirrored RAID1

2008-08-18 Thread Ivan Voras
Henry Karpatskij wrote: Hi, I have a failing IDE disk which is running my 7.0-p1 server. I've been investigating the possible solutions and I've decided to go with two new IDE disks and gmirror. However, I'm not too familiar with disk internals, I know how to install the system and somehow

Re: Migrating to gmirrored RAID1

2008-08-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Monday 18 August 2008 05:39:10 am Henry Karpatskij wrote: Hi, I have a failing IDE disk which is running my 7.0-p1 server. I've been investigating the possible solutions and I've decided to go with two new IDE disks and gmirror. However, I'm not too familiar with disk internals, I know