[SunHELP] Mirrored disks

[Harlan Whitley]

Use dd in crontab, much safer.

> RE the mirrored boot disks question:
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> Message: 9 Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 08:34:40 -0800 From: Alex Flores
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> Hello All,
> 
> I am needing some help with Disk Suite.
> 
> I have an e450 running Solaris 9.  I have two discs that I want to
> mirror using disk suite.  I don't have the first clue on where to
> start.  I've tried to understand the manual from sun documentation but
> it's just way too overwhelming with information and terms I have no
> idea what they mean.
> 
> If someone could help me out I'd really appreciate it.  I will be
> needing some true hand holding with this though as I am not very
> familiar with Mirroring/RAID 1/Disk Suite.
> 
> I understand if no one replies to this and I understand that every
> system is different so mine will also need special assistance.
> 
> Perhaps someone could point me to a website that has a good How-To?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Alex
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> 
> If you are mirroring the root (boot) disks, then I suggest you
> check out the Sun Blueprints online articles, specifically:
> 
> Configuring Boot Disks With Solaris Volume Manager Software
> http://www.sun.com/solutions/blueprints/1002/817-0407-10.pdf
> 
> Some very good info there for free, too.  Especially note the 
> /etc/system parameter that allows a 2-disk system to keep going if one
> disk fails, something like "set md-mirrored-root = 1".
> 
> HTH.
> --
> David Strom
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