On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 08:36:32AM -0600, Cal Evans wrote:
> Run your database from a RAID 0. At some point during the night. Down one of
> the drives, mount it and copy the data.  Then unmount it bring it back
> on-line.  The RAID card should re-sync them without any down time.

FWIW, you mean RAID 1 ... RAID 0 is non-redundant; it stripes data across
disks to get better speed.  RAID 1 gives you two disk that are identical.

If you have Linux or NT with software RAID, you can easily set two partitions
on one drive to be mirrors of each other too, with the same effect.
-- 
Michael T. Babcock
CTO, FibreSpeed Ltd.     (Hosting, Security, Consultation, SQL, etc)
http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/

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