Re: mirrorring question

On Mon, 19 May 2003 07:27:22 -0400, Stefan Voets wrote: You can do that or you can replace the disks online with no downtime except for physically inserting the new drives: Call the existing disks disk1 & disk2 and the new drives disks 3 & 4. 1 - Take a level 0 archive (becuase it pays to be paranoid). 2 - Use onspaces -d to drop each of the chunks on disk 1. 3 - Use onspaces -m add back the replacement chunk from disk 3. 4 - Repeat 2 & 3 for disks 2 & 4 If you have to slots to have disk 1 & 3 online concurrently (similarly for disks 2 & 4) then you can do this one chunk at a time and minimize your failure risk. Art S. Kagel > Hello, > > we have an AIX server with Informix Dynamic Server 2000 Version 9.21.UC4 > > all informix chunks are mirrorred using informix mirrorring sample : > disk 1 rootdbs, dat1dbsm, ... > disk 2 rootdbsm, dat1dbs, ... > > our disks are becoming to small so we have to replace them > > Is the following procedure correct : > > a) stop informix > b) remove disk 1 > c) start informix to see if everything still works d) stop informix > again > e) insert new disk and create the raw devices > > !!! question : do I need to do anything to start rebuilding the mirrors > ? > > f) restart the whole procedure for disk2 > > thanks in advance