Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sat Sep 29 19:08:20 CDT 2012
That is a possibility, but we are still stuck with the main system being shut down for an extended time. I have been looking at "shadow-copied" drives. The one issues is that you are not supposed to Shadow-copy your boot drive as it slows the system down and to subsequently add the feature would takes a long time to add. The other data drives can be processed as the data can be moved off, to a backup drive and processed separately... I guess the only real solution is to have a fall-over server that is setup as a backup domain controller and then update main controller while off line. Do you have any experience with managing the principle domain and backup domain controller especially when you are using Active-Directory? (I understand there are a number of "gotcas" but don't know them all.) Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Bartow Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 2:17 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Server harddrive updates Could you boot from a smaller SSD? (Then you can do a check disk on the larger drives anytime.) -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 3:45 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: [dba-Tech] Server harddrive updates I have had to do updates on one of my servers. The server, in question, has 4 x 2TB drives and the time it takes to run a full check-disk is about 6 hours. In the meantime, I have had to re-direct to a friends site to maintain all of the web support. Question: Is there anyway, software package, or method to run in the background as the system will currently only do a thorough check-disk in boot mode which means the whole server is effective down until the process is completed. TIA Jim _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com