03-03-2009
Backup for HW Mirrored Disks
We use SW mirroring (RAID1) using SVM for our SUN servers (which we OEM to end clients with our application on). When I need to make a tape backup for the server (disk), I disable mirroring and perform backup of the entire disk to tape using ufsdump. This process requires an outage and sensitive as there is no room for mistakes. It is relatively complicated to other engineers/clients to do this and support SW mirroring using SVM on regular basis (as experienced in the last few years supporting this). So I decided to got for HW mirroring using raidctl which seems to be more straight forward and reliable. However, I am exploring option to make tape backup strategy for the whole disk with minimum outage and relatively easy steps/procedure. I can think of FLAR to tape... but can anyone suggest something based on experience that is reliable and easier to do?
Last edited by StarSol; 03-03-2009 at 07:39 PM..
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