Same topic - different question. I assume you can add mirroring to an existing single boot drive server?
Dan Spangenberg > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of A. Clausen > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 2:55 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Win2000 mirroring > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chris Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 09:49 > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Win2000 mirroring > > > > John Tolmachoff (Lists) wrote: > > > > > Software mirroring is slower and adds workload to the > CPU. However, > > > depending on the load, this may not make much of a difference. > > > > Also, (at least on W2K mirroring) the information used by > the OS to do > > the mirroring is stored on the primary drive. If that hard > drive goes > > bad in the area that stores that info., you have to do low-level > > editing of the disk to recover to the mirrored drive. In > the case I > > dealt with this was > a > > not very fun, 5 hour call to MS PSS. Even when the other drive was > > back > up, > > the volume mapping was corrupted (D: was W:, C: was Q:, > etc.). Ended > > up reloading the server. Don't take this as an absolute technical > > fact since I'm going off memory here. > > > > Moral of the story: stay away from software mirroring. > > We've been running Win2k mirroring for darn near three years > and never had that problem. We've had masters die and slaves > die, and other than the pain of swapping cables when it is > the primary drive that croaks, we've never had the problem > you describe. What you likely suffered was damage to the > boot sector, which I have had. I have an emergency boot disk > (very simple to > build) which kept the server going until I could fix the > problem. In fact, anybody running WinNT or greater should > have a boot disk for each server. > > -- > Aaron Clausen > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%> 40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Knowledge Base/FAQ: > http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
