Using mirroring to replace drive?

2008-10-18 Thread Chris Pratt
Hi, For years I've been upgrading by building a temp server, transferring a production function to it and temporarily decommissioning the one server while I upgrade and rebuild it. I was thinking of trying a different approach since having tried out gvinum in the last couple of years. The

Re: Using mirroring to replace drive?

2008-10-18 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 18 October 2008, Chris Pratt wrote: Hi, For years I've been upgrading by building a temp server, transferring a production function to it and temporarily decommissioning the one server while I upgrade and rebuild it. I was thinking of trying a different approach since having tried

Re: Using mirroring to replace drive?

2008-10-18 Thread Chris Pratt
On Oct 18, 2008, at 7:03 PM, John Nielsen wrote: On Saturday 18 October 2008, Chris Pratt wrote: 1. Is this an appropriate way to deal with this? It could be. However if the new disks are not the same size as the failing ... it. Worst case you end up booting from a single drive and have