Hey All-
I have a Compaq ML530 with (3) 36.4gb hard drives in a 6-drive bay. They are setup in a RAID-V array, such that all drives are combined into one physical drive.
Now, this is one of my mission critical servers - IE it can _not_ go down for more than an hour or so. I have a set of 3 identical drives. I want to make an image copy of the three active drives, onto my 3 spares. I will then store the spares in a locked cabinet, in the event of (God forbid) my server catches on fire or whatnot. That way, I can pop the inactive drives into another identical server, restore the latest backup data from tape, and be off and running in no time.
Questions is - what is the best way to get a mirror image of the active drives onto my backups w/o taking the server down? We do have the tape backup copy that runs every night, but having to re-install the OS, configure the server, and then restore from the backup would cause too much down time. Any help much appreciated. Thanks!
-ben
Ben McMahon
Information Technology
ben.mcmahon@perrysicecream.com
Perry's Ice Cream
I have a Compaq ML530 with (3) 36.4gb hard drives in a 6-drive bay. They are setup in a RAID-V array, such that all drives are combined into one physical drive.
Now, this is one of my mission critical servers - IE it can _not_ go down for more than an hour or so. I have a set of 3 identical drives. I want to make an image copy of the three active drives, onto my 3 spares. I will then store the spares in a locked cabinet, in the event of (God forbid) my server catches on fire or whatnot. That way, I can pop the inactive drives into another identical server, restore the latest backup data from tape, and be off and running in no time.
Questions is - what is the best way to get a mirror image of the active drives onto my backups w/o taking the server down? We do have the tape backup copy that runs every night, but having to re-install the OS, configure the server, and then restore from the backup would cause too much down time. Any help much appreciated. Thanks!
-ben
Ben McMahon
Information Technology
ben.mcmahon@perrysicecream.com
Perry's Ice Cream