Networks

Ask something
Discussion Locked

Mirror Drives

0 helpful
5 replies

by philldmc

Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.

This is the thrid time this has happened to me, the site lost power for a period of time last night and the UPS kept the sever up as long as possible before the shut down software kicked in. However the all three times when I turned the system back on the server had to resync the hard drives for the mirror. This process consumes alot of the server resources causing a major network slow down.

How can I tell the server that in the event of the mirror breaking to only resync at night?

5 replies

by cul8rm8e

I think maybe the first thing you should do is ask yourself a question! which should be something along the lines of, If it was atall possible to resync my drives at night when network usage is at a minimum what solution would i have to get my server up and running as soon as possible for all my many screaming users if my main boot/system drive suddenly crashed and burned?

Correct me if im wrong but,Mirrored drives = Fault tollerance!

Sync drives at a later time of night? means no fault tollerance! Hmmmmmm.

Should i even bother with a 50% overhead on disc space?

take this with a pinch of salt :)

by gigelul

If the hard disks need resync, means that the shut down was not correct executed.
Check your UPS software or if don't have a SMART UPS buy one.

This discussion is closed to new replies.