Re: SBS 2003 OS Drive Mirror
- From: "Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:17:39 -0700
Sorry, fat fingers hit send before I finished...
* shutdown and install RAID card.
* boot from device that allows you to upgrade teh RAID card firmware if you're not running the most current firmware (VERY few will be up to date new out of the box.)
* Connect new HD to the RAID card
* boot to original SBS
* Install driver(s) for new RAID card. Reboot almost certainly required.
* Make sure you can "see" the new (blank) disk in disk manager
* Shutdown, move the existing boot disk to the new RAID card
* boot to the RAID BIOS and create mirror (non-destructively)
* boot to Windows.
There are other ways around the drivers issue, but this is one I've used successfully fairly recently (with a modestly priced 3WARE card.)
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"Charlie Russel - MVP" <charlie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OgshiqowJHA.4636@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Then go right ahead. You'll need to convert the existing disk to dynamic, and then create the mirror to the new disk, which must be at least as large as the current boot partition (if you're only mirroring the boot partition.)
I really prefer even an inexpensive hardware RAID to software RAID, and it really isn't that expensive to get a basic hardware RAID controller card. It's a multi-step process, since you'll need to get the drivers installed into the OS before you can boot off it at all, but that's fairly simple in a RAID-1 creating scenario:
* shutdown and install RAID card. Connect new HD to the RAID card
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"Northwest Upgrades Plus" <andyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx(donotspam)> wrote in message news:58AD4983-E41B-4297-BD86-B32E065E96E0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxThanks for the info. It will be Windows mirroring. I know, I know. It is best
to use hardware for this, but they want it cheap!!!
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Thanks for your help.
"Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:
It should be possible, yes. You don't specify if you're talking about
Windows mirroring, using the built in software RAID, of if they're adding a
RAID card and mirroring off of that. But in most cases, you can create a
mirror without harming the original disk.
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"Northwest Upgrades Plus" <andyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx(donotspam)> wrote in
message news:098C54CE-20C6-4350-927B-472FB6B806A6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Is it possible to add a mirror to a drive that already exists without
> losing
> the data on the current drive. I have a client that is finally taking > my
> advice and wants to mirror their OS drive but they do not want to
> reinstall
> SBS 2003. Thanks for any help.
> -- > Thanks for your help.
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