Re: Harddrive redundancy
From: Andrei Ungureanu (andreix@msn.com)
Date: 07/05/02
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From: "Andrei Ungureanu" <andreix@msn.com> Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 17:33:50 +0300
Mirroring is available only in Windows 2000 Server. In Win2k Professional
you have only stripping. (no fault tolerant volumes).
So, buy a RAID controller.
Andrei Ungureanu
"x y" <jamescagney90210@excite.com> wrote in message
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> Windows 2000 will do disk mirroring, though there may be a bit of a
> performance hit. It's under computer management, storage, disk
management.
>
> Unless there is already NT mirroring on the system, I believe you have to
> upgrade your disks from basic to dynamic first by right-clicking on them
in
> Disk Management.
>
> Also, if a hard drive fails, you may need to have a homemade Win 2000 boot
> floppy to be able to boot up to the backup disk and then edit the boot.ini
> files to be able to boot from the hard drive [or even better yet, before a
> failure occurs, edit the boot.ini files to add a menu option to boot from
> the second hard drive].
>
> You may consider buying servers with hardware RAID 5 built in. It costs a
> little more, but is the usual way to do this if you have the money in the
> budget. Also it allows you to use RAID5 to protect the windows partition,
> which I believe windows 2000 software RAID won't do.
>
> "John" <J_longsworth@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1554d01c22313$046f50b0$3bef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA10...
> > Hi, I'm the administrator of a small network of win2k
> > proffesional machines (no server yet!!). I just wanted to
> > know if there was a program available or a function of
> > NTBackup that will keep a mirror of a harddrive available.
> > Like have a computer with 2 harddrives, both for the most
> > part exactly the same. If one goes down, I can just use
> > the other and replace the broken, then start the cycle
> > again.
> > Thanks for any assistance.
> >
>
>
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