Mirroring in DiskSuite v2.0 (the GUI method written by Matt Jenkins)
- Create a small new partition of around 4mb on an unused slice for the MetaDB using ‘format’ on the source drive
- Create matching sized filesystems on the destination drive using ‘format’ inc adding the MetaDB filesystem
- Run Metatool in X
- Right-click info on the MetaDB icon and insert the two 4mb
MetaDB slices you created on both disks but set the number of DB copies
to be 2 for each (to allow for a Quorum to be created. Click Commit
- Click on Concat/Stripe template icon & change name to d
- Click on Slices’ button on main window
- Drag a configured slice/filesystem for SOURCE DISK only into newly created Concat/Stripe icon. Click Commit
- Click on Mirror template icon and change its name to something appropriate eg d103
- Drag the Concat/Stripe icon into the Mirror icon (eg drag
d3 into d103) and click Commit. Ignore warnings about VFSTAB and
mounted filesystems.
- Repeat steps 5 -> 9 for any other filesystems (inc swap but not 3 the Overlay complete disk slice) on the SOURCE Drive
- Reboot Server
- Restart Metatool and create Concat/Stripe icons for DESTINATION DISK given suitable names such as d13
- Drag each Destination Concat/Stripe icon into its
respective mirror icon from before the reboot. This will give you for
example d103 is the mirror, d3 is the source filesystem eg /var and d13
is the empty destination filesystem on the second drive. Click Commit.
The drives will now synchronise.
- All sorted!