How to create mirror disk in solaris machine?


 
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Old 06-01-2010
Bug How to create mirror disk in solaris machine?

hi,

I'm newbie in Solaris 10. can someone explain me the steps of how to create mirror disk in Solaris machine.

thanks in advance
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Old 06-01-2010
Please find bellow link....
Disk Mirror in Solaris 9 via Solaris Volume Manager

"Search" in "unix.com" could give you many more results...SmilieSmilie
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Old 06-01-2010
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Old 06-02-2010
Hi Reboot,

thanks for the info
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Old 06-02-2010
I'd also recommend ZFS.
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Old 08-04-2010
Using ZFS is quite easy as you just attach yr disk to yr pool , without ZFS , then try Disk Suite which is somewhat complicated !

Brian
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