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Robin Jatko
We have two identical Dell PowerEdge 1650s in the same rack, one on top
of the other. Server A is setup with hardware RAID 1, W2K, IIS5, and a
third-part app. The file content is static, as the database is located
elsewhere, on a mainframe.
Server B will be a fail-over server, NOT real-time. Just a back up
server, in case Server A dies. Server B has nothing on it, no OS etc and
is not connected to the network. But it is mirrored at the hardware
level.
What I want to do (somehow!) is to use the hot swappable mirrored drive
on Server A to completely mirror everything to Server B. The OS and
apps, everything! It would seem that I could just remove the second
drive from Server A and put it a drive bay on Server B, but this did not
work. I know there is a SID on every Windows server, but Server B is off
the network.
Ghost does not work (we tried), and I read on the Symantec site that
Ghost does not support any RAID configurations.
of the other. Server A is setup with hardware RAID 1, W2K, IIS5, and a
third-part app. The file content is static, as the database is located
elsewhere, on a mainframe.
Server B will be a fail-over server, NOT real-time. Just a back up
server, in case Server A dies. Server B has nothing on it, no OS etc and
is not connected to the network. But it is mirrored at the hardware
level.
What I want to do (somehow!) is to use the hot swappable mirrored drive
on Server A to completely mirror everything to Server B. The OS and
apps, everything! It would seem that I could just remove the second
drive from Server A and put it a drive bay on Server B, but this did not
work. I know there is a SID on every Windows server, but Server B is off
the network.
Ghost does not work (we tried), and I read on the Symantec site that
Ghost does not support any RAID configurations.