Mirroring the driveA to DriveB (Auto Backup)

Thanks for the response Ian, but iam using the Windows 2003 Server. And when i checked the same in it, it was tuned to the Healthy(Neither Dynamic nor Basic).

How can i mirror that in the windows 2003 Enterprise Server environment.

Please help me out.

Rakesh.

The "Healthy" you are referring to should be on one of the volumes your looking at...not the disk itself. If you look to the left of where you were looking to see where it said health...you should see

Disk0
Basic

Disk1
Basic

CDROM
Whatever ist says here :-)

You must make the "Disk" a basic disk, not a volume that is on the disk, but the actual disk itself.

Both of the disks must be "dynamic" disks to do mirroring with Windows 2000 and 2003 servers.

To add to what parkerig stated above, he is 100% correct about how the mirror will work, even if that is acceptable, I recommend against it being your primary backup source.

Situation: Building burns down, earthquack hits, tornado comes through.....then it dosent matter what you had mirrored if the whole building is leveled. Make sure you do yourself a favor and have a copy of a tape backup off-site.

Let me know if you need more help!!

Thanks!

Hi kruptos,

Can i change the volume status to DYNAMIC, if yes how can i change the status??

Can you walk me thru the documentation from the bottom level....

Please help me out regarding this.... already i have lost enough data :-(

Your afforts are appreciatedle...

Thanks again for the information shared by you till now.

Cheers,
Rakesh.

to upgrade to dynamic just right mouse click on device in Disk Maanager and select upgrade to dynamic

Cheers

Here is what I was able to find on Microsofts TechNet,

Hope this helps, let me know what else I can do to assist :-)

To upgrade a basic disk to a dynamic disk

Open Disk Management
Right-click the basic disk you want to upgrade, click Upgrade to Dynamic Disk, and then follow the instructions on your screen.
If you do not see this command, you may be right-clicking a volume instead of a disk, the disk may have been previously upgraded to a dynamic disk, or the computer is a portable computer. (Dynamic disks are not supported on portable computers.)

 Note

You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group in order to complete this procedure. If your computer is connected to a network, network policy settings may also prevent you from completing this procedure.
To open Disk Management, click Start, point to Settings, click Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools, and then double-click Computer Management. In the console tree under Storage, click Disk Management.
For additional information about upgrading basic disks to dynamic disks, see Related Topics.
After you upgrade a basic disk to a dynamic disk, you cannot change the dynamic volumes back to partitions. Instead, you must delete all dynamic volumes on the disk and then use the Revert To Basic Disk command.
Before you upgrade disks, close any programs that are running on those disks.
For the upgrade to succeed, any disks to be upgraded must contain at least 1 MB of unallocated space. Disk Management automatically reserves this space when creating partitions or volumes on a disk, but disks with partitions or volumes created by other operating systems may not have this space available. (This space may exist even if it is not visible in Disk Management.)
Once upgraded, a dynamic disk cannot contain partitions or logical drives, nor can it be accessed by MS-DOS or Windows operating systems other than Windows 2000.
When you upgrade a basic disk to a dynamic disk, any existing partitions on the basic disk become simple volumes on the dynamic disk. Any existing mirrored volumes (mirror sets), striped volumes (stripe sets), RAID-5 volumes (stripe sets with parity), or spanned volumes (volume sets) become dynamic mirrored volumes, dynamic striped volumes, dynamic RAID-5 volumes, or dynamic spanned volumes, respectively.

Hi kruptos,

:-( one more issue, the drive type is now changed to dynamic, but when i tried to right click on the drive, this time the ADD MIRROR option is disabled or blocked, how to enable the Add Mirror event to mirror two drives of the same disk? It is something like this

Disk 0   :   (C)
Disk 1   :   (E)
Disk 2   :   (F)  (G)

I want to mirror the Contents of (F) to (G), and (F) will be having shared to all the users and (G) will not have share, i want all the contents of the (F) to replicate into the (G) drive, so that whenever i take backup I will depend on only (G).

Am I doing correct?? will it help me??? Please advice.

Cheers,
Rakesh.

Howdy,
Wait for Kruptos to confirm but you can't mirror from F to G.
The whole idea of a mirror is to take F and mirror it to another partition that windows sees jointly as F - windows only sees F, so you will never get a G to back up.

If this is your goal you need to run scheduled tasks that copy Drive F to Drive G then backup Drive G as I said above.

Sorry for the bad news - hopefully I'm wrong.
Ian.

opps, I was gonna go ito a whole "senario" thing in the last post...but got side tracked when i found the mirroring procedure...ignore the part of my post that says... "In other words, if it was a perfect world and you have enough space still on basic disk 1, I would do the following.."


sorry for any confusion :-)

Alright, roomservice is here: I will recommend to split points because, even though kruptos posted a good answer in his last posting, with just one HD, a low level mirroring is not possible, so I think parkerig 1st anwser should be usefull too.

Tolomir

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