Re: Failing hard drive (non OS) - question about mirroring
- From: "Ruth Cheesley" <newsgroup<at>suffolkcomputerservices<dot>co(dot)uk>
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 00:44:25 +0100
Hi Matt,
That sounds exactly like the problem I am having - it's been intermittent
and I was suprised having seen the event logs that I hadn't had a call
already! I'd been away on annual leave and although there was an unexpected
server reboot mid way through which I was informed of by email, I had not
heard a whisper from them and was a bit suprised when I checked out the
logs!
Thank you for the advice, that's really useful. I am ordering two anyway,
just to be sure, as it's sods law I replace one and it continues to have
problems! The drive is nowhere near full, so I don't think it'll take a
huge amount of time to restore. I think I'll just dump the new drives in,
recreate the mirror and stick the files on from backup as you suggest - and
do the investigative work later. As you rightly point out, this isn't the
time of year to be faffing about with maybes, I need to know that this will
fix the problem (not to mention the lengthy drive to their location!) first
time and not cause more hassle!
I may even take the opportunity to upgrade to larger hard drives while I'm
at it, to give it a bit of future proofing :)
Thanks again!
Ruth
"Matabra" <Matabra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eXgXxaB%23IHA.4784@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi,
I recently had a similar situation with disk errors and NTFS problems on a
server, In this instance it was the file system rather than the raid. The
only fix was to recreate the raid, wipe everything then restore from
backup
My reccommendation in this situation would be :
Get the Western Digital Drive diagnostic tools to try to identify the
failing drives, (boot Floppy)
Pull the failing drive out, Replace with good one.
Wipe all partitions from both drives and recreate software raid,
Restore from backup.
Obviously this is best done Out of hours due to the downtime, but 160gb
should copy from external HD in 1-3 Hours Max, and you client will feel
happy and loved by you, increasing your business next time :)
If neither drive comes up as bad from the diag tools, i would just replace
both of them anyway, then take the old ones back with you and work it out
afterwards. Again making sure that the client has the best job and
ensuring it wont happen again
Regards,
MAtt
"Ruth Cheesleysuffolkcomputerservicesco (dot)uk>" <newsgroup<atdot> wrote
in message news:OPKfzUB#IHA.3524@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi folks,
I've got an SBS 2003 running just lovely, but having checked the event
logs recently there are a ton of disk errors, paging and NTFS. I take
this to mean that one of the hard drives in the mirror it refers to is on
the way out. When I took over I used one of the existing drives and
added another 160Gb to create a mirror, and I strongly suspect that the
failing one is the existing (and hence, older) drive but will take two
along just in case.
I've got the OS on a single (un-raided) drive, and the data/home
areas/shared files etc are all on the mirrored drive, which consists of
two 160Gb Western Digital hard drives raided using software raid. I know
it's not ideal but cost was a major issue, and at the moment this is what
I have to work with. I've done a full backup of the failing drive in its
entirety on top of an already rigorous backup schedule
(daily/weekly/monthly with the latter two being off site) so I am fairly
confident that if the brown stuff hits the fan I can dump all the shared
files etc back onto a brand new mirror if necessary.
Thankfully the OS drive is fine *touch wood*.
My question is, am I being naiive to think that I just yank out the
failing drive, put in a new 160Gb drive, and let the mirror rebuild
itself? Is there anything that SBS is likely to be unhappy with about
the above, given that it is not an OS drive?
Hoping to get it all swapped out and sorted this weekend as this is a
catering firm who are at the height of their busy season, so now is
REALLY not the best time for their data to be lost!
Kind Regards,
Ruth
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