On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 11:15 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 05:48 -0700, TimJowers@Yahoo.Com wrote:
Maybe someone can clear up the grub conf for me. Has anyone gotten this to work: two IDE/ATA drivers. Slave is a spare duplicate of the master. Goal is to be able to boot to Spare at any time and run it instead. What step am I missing?
Sweat, hard work, in-depth reading and testing? I had this implemented
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Golly! I just realized how that might appear! No slur on your efforts was meant. I was just recalling the number of "panics... failed to sync" type of messages as I learned this junk.
But I'm really here to say: I've not yet studied the new LVM stuff and have not considered how "mirroring" might help/hinder what we are trying to do.
But I'm strong on this "Poor Admin's Backup". At home, I've no $$ for 3Ware, etc. But commodity 100GB HDs at $40 after rebates fits right in my budget.
-- Bill