Mirroring help

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From: Vince (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 04/06/04 

Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2004 13:19:16 -0400

I Posted this earlier and didn't get any response, even a laugh.
If I have posted in the wrong place, or insulted someone, please let me
know.
Or let me know where I could post to get help on mirroring, I would most
certainly appreciate it.
If you looked at my post and can't help, please let me know, so I can start
searching elsewhere
Thanks
Vince

Hi all,
My first time mirroring and I'm in trouble already!!
We have SBS4.5 at sp6. The system started with 2 physical drives (4gb each).
When I installed the system, I believe there was an option to create
a system extension on another volume for things like SQL, User software,
etc..
I took that option.
I ended up with about a 2gb vol C:, a 1gb vol E: Sys extension, and 1gb free
space on physical unit 0.
On the other physical unit I created a 2gb vol F: Business, holds our
business software, and 2gb free space.
We have decided to mirror everything and purchased and installed 2 identical
drives.
Before I mirrored the F: volume I wanted to make the best use of the drive
space and gave the F: volume the free space on its physical drive.
This work fine and I ended up with one big volume F: on that drive. I then
mirrored it to the physical drive I wanted and that work great too. Now I'm
thinking, Boy did they make this easy.
Ha!! Now we come to the system vol C: and E: system extension. Beings the
system vol. C: gets filled up with log records I decided to give it the 1gb
of free space on it's physical unit. I was promptly told that I couldn't do
this as it is the system volume(I know I read that somewhere).
I figured I would give the space to the E: sys extension and point the
logging crap to it. When I tried to do this instead of ending up with one
vol E: sys extension, like I got with the vol F: I ended up with 2 vol E:
sys extensions each in their own little boxes in the disk administrator
window.
I figured this is ok and tried to mirror what I had. It wouldn't let me
select all of it an create the mirror, so I selected Vol C: and that
mirrored. When I selected Vol E: sys extension and clicked fault tolerance
on the menu "Mirror" was grayed out. I Had committed previous stuff and
rebooted.
What am I doing wrong?? Can I copy the stuff in Vol E: sys extension to a
temp folder on my F: volume, delete the E: sys extension from the physical
drive, create another E: system extension that uses up all the free space on
that drive and then copy the stuff back?? Or will SBS swear at me, and turn
my system into a vegetable because I screwed with its paths, pointers,
permissions and other magical stuff???
Any Help Would be appreciated
Vince

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  • Re: Extending my C: drive
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