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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!204.89.181.3!en.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!newsgate.duke.edu!usenet From: reese@chem.duke.edu (Charles Reese) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: disk setup question Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 17:08:22 GMT Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA Lines: 26 Message-ID: <33a56f93.100105883@news.duke.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: async249-188.async.duke.edu X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/16.230 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42902 I want to setup a second IDE (4.2G ) drive on one of my machines to use as a backup store for the other machines on my network . I would like to just use tar and ftp in a shell script to do all the backups and I want to make this disk FBSD bootable with a standard installation, but with a /backup file system. In use I would not mount the / /usr /var partitions on this disk but only the /backup fs this way I can store the backups on the disk and when a disk fails on another machine I can just move this HD to the machine in question and boot it up, restore the files from the appropriate tar and go. 1. As I am not very proficient in UNIX I thought I would ask if this sounds resonable and if others have implemented a similar scheme? 2. In particular will there be any problem mounting my /backup fs on the second disk while having (unmounted) / /usr and /var fs(s) also on that disk? 3. Could I run NFS and mount my other machines fs(s) on the backup machine and just do the tars there, skipping the ftp step? Thanks Charlie Reese