G
George Sullivan
In my unix environment I keep a cloned disk that is a copy
of the boot disk. It is online all the time and I can boot
from the clone at a moments notice, if the primary system
disk goes down. But it is not a automatic mirror. I do
it manually and keep it current whenever I make major
system changes. I was thinking perhaps I can do this with
my Win 2000 servers. I know you can mirror under disk
management, but I don't want to keep the mirror active. I
only want it when needed. A recurring schedule of
mirroring could keep the two disk pretty much in sync
perhaps. Do you think using, perhaps Ghost, I could make
an exact copy of the boot disk. Then if it has problems I
could switch the PINS on the back and make the clone the
Primary on the IDE controller. Then boot from the clone.
I don't have any mirroring software or any fancy tools.
Also these are not fancy RAID controlled servers. Just
simple single disk systems.
Any ideas or real-life-stories would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks
of the boot disk. It is online all the time and I can boot
from the clone at a moments notice, if the primary system
disk goes down. But it is not a automatic mirror. I do
it manually and keep it current whenever I make major
system changes. I was thinking perhaps I can do this with
my Win 2000 servers. I know you can mirror under disk
management, but I don't want to keep the mirror active. I
only want it when needed. A recurring schedule of
mirroring could keep the two disk pretty much in sync
perhaps. Do you think using, perhaps Ghost, I could make
an exact copy of the boot disk. Then if it has problems I
could switch the PINS on the back and make the clone the
Primary on the IDE controller. Then boot from the clone.
I don't have any mirroring software or any fancy tools.
Also these are not fancy RAID controlled servers. Just
simple single disk systems.
Any ideas or real-life-stories would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks