Mirroring question

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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
 
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
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> 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
>
>
 
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.
 
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