7.0/i386 to 8.0/amd64 - gmirror/gstripe migration

2010-05-19 Thread Amaru Netapshaak
Hi! I am planning to move from 7.0-REL-i386 to 8.0-REL-amd64 in the near future. My OS drive is a single ata-133 80gb drive, and my data drives are four 1.5TB SATA drives. 6TB total, configured as 2x 3TB 'gstripe' volumes, and I am using gmirror to mirror those gstripe volumes. I hope

Re: 7.0/i386 to 8.0/amd64 - gmirror/gstripe migration

2010-05-19 Thread Amaru Netapshaak
No one has any idea? :( ++AMARU From: Amaru Netapshaak postfix_am...@yahoo.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, May 19, 2010 9:33:14 AM Subject: 7.0/i386 to 8.0/amd64 - gmirror/gstripe migration Hi! I am planning to move from 7.0-REL-i386

Re: 7.0/i386 to 8.0/amd64 - gmirror/gstripe migration

2010-05-19 Thread James Phillips
Hi! I am planning to move from 7.0-REL-i386 to 8.0-REL-amd64 SNIP! Does anyone foresee any serious problems with this plan?  I know doing a whole version upgrade can sometimes introduce bugs when dealing with old setups, so I just want to cover my bases prior to the work. This sounds

Re: 7.0/i386 to 8.0/amd64 - gmirror/gstripe migration

2010-05-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 20/05/2010 24:03:17, Amaru Netapshaak wrote: I am planning to move from 7.0-REL-i386 to 8.0-REL-amd64 in the near future. My OS drive is a single ata-133 80gb drive, and my data drives are four 1.5TB SATA drives. 6TB total, configured as 2x

Re: Backup complete gmirror/gstripe/gjournal drives, how-to?

2008-12-08 Thread Ivan Voras
Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've got a 7.1-PRERELEASE i386 box with 4 SATA drives configured in a RAID-10 using gmirror, gstripe, and gjournal. Normally, I use dump and rsync for periodic backups on this machine, but I suspect that the gmirror/gstripe/gjournal information is not being backed

Backup complete gmirror/gstripe/gjournal drives, how-to?

2008-12-06 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I've got a 7.1-PRERELEASE i386 box with 4 SATA drives configured in a RAID-10 using gmirror, gstripe, and gjournal. Normally, I use dump and rsync for periodic backups on this machine, but I suspect that the gmirror/gstripe/gjournal information is not being backed up. If my

Re: Backup complete gmirror/gstripe/gjournal drives, how-to?

2008-12-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
periodic backups on this machine, but I suspect that the gmirror/gstripe/gjournal information is not being backed up. If my assumption is correct, how can I perform a one-time backup such that I could do a bare-metal restore? The essence of the question being I want to assuming you do

Re: Backup complete gmirror/gstripe/gjournal drives, how-to?

2008-12-06 Thread Doug Poland
Wojciech Puchar wrote: periodic backups on this machine, but I suspect that the gmirror/gstripe/gjournal information is not being backed up. If my assumption is correct, how can I perform a one-time backup such that I could do a bare-metal restore? The essence of the question being I want

Re: Backup complete gmirror/gstripe/gjournal drives, how-to?

2008-12-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
that I could do a bare-metal restore? The essence of the question being I want to assuming you do gmirror first and then gstripe of gmirror then use dd to read last sectors of each disk drive and each gmirror device. and backup disklabels Thanks for the suggestion. I did, in fact, create a

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 - should I be using gvinum or gmirror/gstripe?

2008-04-21 Thread Ghirai
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:34:01 -0500 Shelby Cain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm toying with the idea of setting up a raid 1+0 array using 4 500GB sata drives. However, I can't seem to find any definitive answer as to whether I should be using gvinum or gmirror+gstripe to accomplish that goal

FreeBSD 7.0 - should I be using gvinum or gmirror/gstripe?

2008-04-20 Thread Shelby Cain
I'm toying with the idea of setting up a raid 1+0 array using 4 500GB sata drives. However, I can't seem to find any definitive answer as to whether I should be using gvinum or gmirror+gstripe to accomplish that goal. Does anyone have any links to resources (or just personal opinion

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 - should I be using gvinum or gmirror/gstripe?

2008-04-20 Thread Julien Cigar
I would use gmirror + gstripe ... I'm not sure if gvinum is still actively developped .. (?) On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 14:34 -0500, Shelby Cain wrote: I'm toying with the idea of setting up a raid 1+0 array using 4 500GB sata drives. However, I can't seem to find any definitive answer

gmirror / gstripe

2005-03-06 Thread John Pettitt
I'm considering making a raid0+1 array out of 4 x 250GB USB drives using gmirror and gstripe on a FreeBSD 5.3 box. Questions: 1) Has anybody done this? What should I watch our for? 2) Stripe then mirror right? (or mirror then stripe? Does it matter?) (I already have a 600gb stripe set on this

Re: gmirror / gstripe

2005-03-06 Thread Ean Kingston
On Sunday, March 6, 2005, at 04:55 PM, John Pettitt wrote: I'm considering making a raid0+1 array out of 4 x 250GB USB drives using gmirror and gstripe on a FreeBSD 5.3 box. Questions: 1) Has anybody done this? What should I watch our for? I haven't done this on FreeBSD or with USB drives (but

Re: gmirror / gstripe

2005-03-06 Thread Alec Berryman
John Pettitt on 2005-03-06 13:55:22 -0800: 1) Has anybody done this? What should I watch our for? http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/ is a nice guide for gmirror. pgpcaHv0PRrzx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gmirror / gstripe

2005-03-06 Thread John Pettitt
Ean Kingston wrote: On Sunday, March 6, 2005, at 04:55 PM, John Pettitt wrote: I'm considering making a raid0+1 array out of 4 x 250GB USB drives using gmirror and gstripe on a FreeBSD 5.3 box. Questions: 1) Has anybody done this? What should I watch our for? I haven't done this