Mirroring question

[Guest MMJII]

Hello All,

I have a win 2k adv server 2-18 gb scsi hd's

I changed them too dynamic in order to mirror the drives.

When I got thru the process i get a dialog box that ask me to add the drive

i want to mirror.

After i do there is a dialog box that ask to assign a letter on the drive

"D". I thought the mirror would be the same letter as the original drive

"C". Should i choose "D" as the mirror drive letter, or choose "Do not

assign a letter"?

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

MMJII

[Guest MMJII]

Re: Mirroring question

 

I figured it out. I should not have put a volume on the 2nd disk before i

attempted to mirror it.

\Once I deleted the volume from the 2nd disk, right click, and pick "add

mirror" voila

"MMJII" <MMJII@microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:ef2rhocwIHA.3384@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> Hello All,

> I have a win 2k adv server 2-18 gb scsi hd's

> I changed them too dynamic in order to mirror the drives.

> When I got thru the process i get a dialog box that ask me to add the

drive

> i want to mirror.

> After i do there is a dialog box that ask to assign a letter on the drive

> "D". I thought the mirror would be the same letter as the original drive

> "C". Should i choose "D" as the mirror drive letter, or choose "Do not

> assign a letter"?

> Any help is appreciated.

> Thanks

> MMJII

>

>

[Guest OldDuke]

Re: Mirroring question

 

On Thu, 29 May 2008 16:25:25 -0400, "MMJII" <MMJII@microsoft.com>

wrote:

>Hello All,

>I have a win 2k adv server 2-18 gb scsi hd's

>I changed them too dynamic in order to mirror the drives.

>When I got thru the process i get a dialog box that ask me to add the drive

>i want to mirror.

>After i do there is a dialog box that ask to assign a letter on the drive

>"D". I thought the mirror would be the same letter as the original drive

>"C". Should i choose "D" as the mirror drive letter, or choose "Do not

>assign a letter"?

>Any help is appreciated.

>Thanks

>MMJII

>

 

 

Better to not rely on Windows or Software Mirroring at all. Hardware

Raid (RAID 1) mirrorring is the only good way to do it.

 

Of course it provides no backup redundancy in any case. If a fault

occurs that crashes the main drive, the same fault will exist in the

mirror copy.