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Re: Drive Mirroring Set-up

On Jul 20, 2004, at 8:14 PM, Bill Lloyd wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> On Jul 20, 2004, at 3:35 PM, Dan Tappin wrote:
>
>> I have an G4 Tower that plan to re-built and install OS X Server on.
>> I plan to, among other things, add two new 80GB drives for the
>> OS both mirrored. It's with the software raid which I know is not
>> ideal but I can live with it.
>>
>> I want to install one drive and get it up and running during off peak
>> hours but still be able to use the current drive and access
>> the data on it. When I am happy that the new drive and install is
>> complete I will swap the current 40 GB drive for a second 80GB
>> and then the plan was to mirror them.
>>
>> Can I do this or do I need to initialize both drives at the same time?
>
> You can do this. You'll have to use the command line though -- in
> particular you'll do 'diskutil enableRAID' followed by 'diskutil
> repairMirror':
>
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106987
>

I don't know if this will be supported on this Mac. The man page makes
a vague reference about it not working on all hardware. I take that to
mean older Macs are out of luck.

Josh

Josh Wisenbaker, ACSA
Sr. Systems Engineer
ComputerTree Technologies
1-800-467-9820

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 >Drive Mirroring Set-up (From: "Dan Tappin" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Drive Mirroring Set-up (From: Bill Lloyd <email@hidden>)



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