Degraded Raid on Xserve Software Raid

[PeterC]

Hi, our xserve has a degraded raid pair –
[img]http://www.grabup.com/uploads/3547ed1983bb341394585828b434eaf1.png[/img]
What are my options? Can I simply remove the failed drive, add a new one to the mirror and it’ll all be ok? Can I do this whilst the server is online?

[Eden.Nelson]

Automatic rebuild is an option that is not turned on by default when creating a software raid.
Either way, backup your data, pop a new drive in, open disk utility if it starts rebuilding automatically then good.
If not select the raid volume select the raid tab and click rebuild.

[deemery]

Just be prepared for rebuilding to take a loooooong time… I think it took my G5 (not Xserve) about 4 hours to rebuild a 500gb RAID Mirrored partition that was about 60% full…

dave

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