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UNIX® Fault Management: A Guide for System Administration
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UNIX® Fault Management: A Guide for System Administration

by Brad Stone, Julie Symons
December 1999
Intermediate to advanced
368 pages
10h 39m
English
Pearson
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Case Study: Configuring and Monitoring for Mirrored Disks

At Silicon Valley Hospital, Nancy Jergens is responsible for maintaining patient records on the hospital's records computer system. To provide extra data protection and high availability, she has decided to use MirrorDisk/UX to mirror the /patient filesystem containing the patient records.

Nancy sets up two-way mirroring on the logical volume containing the patient records. The logical volume lvol_patients is mounted at /patient.

Verifying Configuration

After Nancy configures the mirroring, she verifies the configuration by using the lvdisplay command. As shown in Listing 5-12, Nancy verifies that the logical volume, lvol_patients, is available and mirrored with one copy.

Setting Up Monitoring ...

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