Re: Need advice on RAID5
From: John Flack <RHUZ94A_at_prodigy.com>
Date: 1996/04/06
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Date: 1996/04/06
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>You need to have a system with a second SCSI controller. The disk on
>it does not have to be RAID or even Mirrored (but that would be a good
>idea). This gives you a place to place to save a SECOND copy of the
>REDO LOGS, ARCHIVE LOGS and CONTROL FILE. Then if your RAID system
>goes bad and you finally have it repaired, you can recover the data
>base. That is assuming you've been doing good old tape backups and
>not fallen into the trap of not doing them since you had RAID.
Funny you should mention that. You wrote a perfect description of what we did to protect ourselves after the unexplained RAID failure. Received on Sat Apr 06 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST