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Win 98 Disk Mirroring

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by dougwest

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Can disk mirroring be done on a Win 98 machine which is acting as the main file server in a peer to peer network? Other machines all run Win 98, also. "Server" has two identical hard drives & we'd like to mirror the data on them to have an always up to date backup in case one crashes. If this can be done, please tell me how.

Thanks,
Doug

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by timthetoolman

Hi,

There is no native support for mirroring in Win98. You do have a couple of options, though.

1. Hardware...

There are plug in PCI style controllers you can but that will allow you to do raid 1 in hardware. Here's an example...

http://www.positiveesolutions.com/Araid/dupli.html

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Also if you were willing to upgrade your motherboard, many have builtin raid these days. Mine does - its an MSI K7T266 Pro Raid.

They're pretty cheap.

2. Software...

You could upgrade to Windows2000 Server which has built-in disk mirroring...

or...

http://www.techsoftpl.com/backup/

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Which isn't raid but does the same job...

I couldn't find any products for implementing software raid on Win98. I've never heard of any either.

Perhaps someone else has?

I would strongly reccoment going with the hardware option, though. Its quite cheap, easier to manage and wont slow your machine down.

Cheers,
Tim.

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