starport 5.5 Mirror Fast initialization
Posted: Sun Mar 28, 2010 3:30 pm
I am using starport 5.5 to mirror a local image and a remote ISCSI(starwind) target. I am mounting the mirrored volume as the backup device for win2k8 environment. Both the local and remote images are raw and have never been mounted. My question is this: Is there a fast way to intialize the empty mirror within starport?
The first client is set this up for I tried to "Clear mirrors"(500GB image). After the local image cleared and I realized how long it would take to clear the remote ISCSI image I stopped the process and recreated the mirror selecting the "Synchromize mirrors data" option on the initialization screen. This ran pretty quickly and I was able to mount the drive and begin using it for backup.
The second client I am trying to do this with(750GB) I cannot seem to get the mirror to initialize quickly. I tried repeating the steps I used with the first client with no luck. At this rate it will take ~2 weeks to fully sync the empty image.
I have no idea why it worked so well with the first client but I am happy with the results. Please let me know if you have any ideas.
Thanks,
-christopher
The first client is set this up for I tried to "Clear mirrors"(500GB image). After the local image cleared and I realized how long it would take to clear the remote ISCSI image I stopped the process and recreated the mirror selecting the "Synchromize mirrors data" option on the initialization screen. This ran pretty quickly and I was able to mount the drive and begin using it for backup.
The second client I am trying to do this with(750GB) I cannot seem to get the mirror to initialize quickly. I tried repeating the steps I used with the first client with no luck. At this rate it will take ~2 weeks to fully sync the empty image.
I have no idea why it worked so well with the first client but I am happy with the results. Please let me know if you have any ideas.
Thanks,
-christopher