The boss just gave me a new assignment.
He wants me to set up 2 of his PCs (both running XPpro) to run mirrored drives. Niether rig has RAID, but both are running 2 HDDs on the standard IDE ports of the mobo. He wants to protect his data, in case one drive fails.
I just checked the MS knowledge base, and it tells me that you cannot run mirrored drives in XP, like you could in NT and some versions of 2k.
Any suggestions?
One possibility would be to set up a backup prog to periodically back up the primary drive onto the secondary, but I would preffer to do some kind of mirroring, to save the hassle of restoring the backup, if the primary ever croaks...
He wants me to set up 2 of his PCs (both running XPpro) to run mirrored drives. Niether rig has RAID, but both are running 2 HDDs on the standard IDE ports of the mobo. He wants to protect his data, in case one drive fails.
I just checked the MS knowledge base, and it tells me that you cannot run mirrored drives in XP, like you could in NT and some versions of 2k.
Any suggestions?
One possibility would be to set up a backup prog to periodically back up the primary drive onto the secondary, but I would preffer to do some kind of mirroring, to save the hassle of restoring the backup, if the primary ever croaks...
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