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Windows 2000 mirroring disk
Hi there,
I set up a server for friend. I put the OS on pri-master, data-secondary master, then I put an identical drive on secondary slave. I went in to disc managment, and mirrored the the secondary drives. Everything worked cool. The secondary slave is in a swappable bay. I have a third identical drive that I wanted to swap out and have the mirror reestablish every time I swap. I broke the mirror, rebooted, and then I thought I could just re-mirror it. That optioned is dimmed out. Do I reformat the drive each time and remake the mirror set? I am kind of new to raid stuff. Any advice is appreciated. tia ~ck |
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You might be wasting your time with your mirrors. These
days, disk failures are fairly rare. When a Win2000 installation fails, it is in most cases due to some software or setup problem - which of course is replicated to your mirrored disk! Disk mirroring might protect you against 5% of all failures, and will afford no protection at all for the remaining 95% of all failures. If you wish to establish a quick recovery method for a failed server installation then I recommend this approach: - Use an imaging program such as DriveImage or Ghost to store an image of the server on your spare disk. - Keep the spare disk away from the server. - Update the image file once every two months. - Keep two versions of the image file: The current one, and the one before that. "ck" wrote in message link.net... Hi there, I set up a server for friend. I put the OS on pri-master, data-secondary master, then I put an identical drive on secondary slave. I went in to disc managment, and mirrored the the secondary drives. Everything worked cool. The secondary slave is in a swappable bay. I have a third identical drive that I wanted to swap out and have the mirror reestablish every time I swap. I broke the mirror, rebooted, and then I thought I could just re-mirror it. That optioned is dimmed out. Do I reformat the drive each time and remake the mirror set? I am kind of new to raid stuff. Any advice is appreciated. tia ~ck |
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To anskwer the question about the broken mirror - you most likely need to
make the new disk dynamic - make sure that is has same device address and then you have to rebuild the mirror when the disk is recogniced... that should be all. Regards "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote in message ... You might be wasting your time with your mirrors. These days, disk failures are fairly rare. When a Win2000 installation fails, it is in most cases due to some software or setup problem - which of course is replicated to your mirrored disk! Disk mirroring might protect you against 5% of all failures, and will afford no protection at all for the remaining 95% of all failures. If you wish to establish a quick recovery method for a failed server installation then I recommend this approach: - Use an imaging program such as DriveImage or Ghost to store an image of the server on your spare disk. - Keep the spare disk away from the server. - Update the image file once every two months. - Keep two versions of the image file: The current one, and the one before that. "ck" wrote in message link.net... Hi there, I set up a server for friend. I put the OS on pri-master, data-secondary master, then I put an identical drive on secondary slave. I went in to disc managment, and mirrored the the secondary drives. Everything worked cool. The secondary slave is in a swappable bay. I have a third identical drive that I wanted to swap out and have the mirror reestablish every time I swap. I broke the mirror, rebooted, and then I thought I could just re-mirror it. That optioned is dimmed out. Do I reformat the drive each time and remake the mirror set? I am kind of new to raid stuff. Any advice is appreciated. tia ~ck |
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it is dynamic, how do I make the address the same? disk0 is the OS, disk1 is
data (mirror source), disk2 is the mirror destination, and then I show a missing drive, this drive is the one taken out during the swap. How do I make sure the addresses are the same? I am thinking about the ghost solution. I could put an OS image and a data image on the two swap drives, then just update the images every so often. That may be a better solution. Thanks for all the advice. ck "Henrik Ohm Eriksen" wrote in message . .. To anskwer the question about the broken mirror - you most likely need to make the new disk dynamic - make sure that is has same device address and then you have to rebuild the mirror when the disk is recogniced... that should be all. Regards "Pegasus (MVP)" wrote in message ... You might be wasting your time with your mirrors. These days, disk failures are fairly rare. When a Win2000 installation fails, it is in most cases due to some software or setup problem - which of course is replicated to your mirrored disk! Disk mirroring might protect you against 5% of all failures, and will afford no protection at all for the remaining 95% of all failures. If you wish to establish a quick recovery method for a failed server installation then I recommend this approach: - Use an imaging program such as DriveImage or Ghost to store an image of the server on your spare disk. - Keep the spare disk away from the server. - Update the image file once every two months. - Keep two versions of the image file: The current one, and the one before that. "ck" wrote in message link.net... Hi there, I set up a server for friend. I put the OS on pri-master, data-secondary master, then I put an identical drive on secondary slave. I went in to disc managment, and mirrored the the secondary drives. Everything worked cool. The secondary slave is in a swappable bay. I have a third identical drive that I wanted to swap out and have the mirror reestablish every time I swap. I broke the mirror, rebooted, and then I thought I could just re-mirror it. That optioned is dimmed out. Do I reformat the drive each time and remake the mirror set? I am kind of new to raid stuff. Any advice is appreciated. tia ~ck |
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