The consensus was to NOT do this as a solid backup strategy. Too many
possible gotchas with it. We made a backup with the system in single
user mode instead. Much safer.
-Ed Silver
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I am doing a major upgrade to a server running an old version of 4.0B and
Oracle.
We are using an HSZ50 and a SW300 RAID shelf.
I've got root and usr on one mirror-set (two 9 Gig drives) and for our
data I've got it setup as four mirrored drives combined to make one
stripset (18 Gig drives).
It looks like this:
M1 = disk100 + disk630
M2 = disk210 + disk520
M3 = disk320 + disk410
M4 = disk420 + disk300
S1 = M1 + M2 + M3 + M4
My question is if I shutdown the box, remove the second disk from each
mirror and bring it back up do I have a perfect backup of the data itself
on my mirrors? So if anything screws up during the upgrades I could in
theory put back the drives I removed and be back in business, right?
Just making sure I have a good backout strategy.
Thanks
-Ed Silver
Received on Mon Apr 09 2001 - 22:14:07 NZST