Any reason the store isnt already on a RAID set?
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 12:09 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Mirroring Mail Store Volume Hi Steve, Regarding Ghost, if my original Volume was 25 gigs, and I wanted to bring that back to a 50 gig Volume, would I be able to do something like that? Or does the restored volume have to be the exact spec as the original? I thought I heard, you don't necessarily have to have the identical size drive when performing a Ghost Restore. Because another goal I have too, is to make that volume larger, so if I could do that (and somehow get Ghost to work after your suggestion), then I would be in pretty good shape. Thanks for any additional information, Mike -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 10:53 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Mirroring Mail Store Volume Ed and Tony have the best solution, but for your info, if you dig into the options in Ghost you can tell it to ignore bad sectors and continue ghosting. -Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 11:42 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Mirroring Mail Store Volume > > > Hello All, > > I hope it's okay to ask this here, because wanting to mirror my > Exchange Store drive is the root of me wanting to do this... and I am > sure you experienced Admins have seen lots of unique "drive related" > issues over > the years. > > I know for a fact, that my store drive (which also happens to be my > boot > volume) has some bad blocks on there. Yet, when I run a CheckDisk on > it > - it doesn't want to flag them, and mark them unusable. > > Since I know that the drive may be in trouble, I immediately put > another drive in the system, so I can mirror the "potentially failing" > drive - and then make the freshly mirrored drive primary (taking out > the original drive altogether when the process is finished). > > For some reason, if you attempt to mirror a drive with bad blocks, it > pukes when it comes upon those blocks - rather than skipping over and > proceeding. I suppose I can understand this, because of the Mirroring > process wanting to create an *exact* image of the master drive. > > What the heck can I do, in order to get this drive - mirrored to > another one? Ghost does not work - because I think these bad blocks > are causing problems too. I am avoiding the process of backing up, > and restoring my system - to a fresh install. I don't have the luxury > of all that downtime, etc. > > I would deeply appreciate anything offered to help remedy this > problem. > > Thanks in advance, > > Mike > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Web Interface: > http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&t ext_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with.
