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In article <31588DAA.78E2@earthlink.net>
Jay Garcia <jgarcia@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Tom Kustner wrote:
> > 
> > We had an experience this weekend that caused us to have to recreate a
> > NetWare partition and restore from backups.  We're back up and
> > running, but we'd like to ask a few questions:
> > 
> > 1.  Can/should we run VREPAIR while the volume is re-mirroring?
> > Common sense would say "No", but the vendor said it was OK.
> > 
> > 2.  Can/should we ever do restores while the volumes are re-mirroring?
> > Again, common sense says "No", but the vendor said it was OK.
> > 
> > 3.  If VREPAIR had to be run on a volume and found corruption *and*
> > you had to restore the volume, is doing a restore with an overwrite
> > option OK, or should we delete the partition, re-create it?  Common
> > sense would say "You should delete the volume...", but again...
> 
> 
> First of all, CHANGE VENDORS !!! .. I don't VREPAIR on anything but a 
> DISMOUNTED volume !! .... 
> 
> You don't perform ANY tasks **WHILE** a volume(s) is in the process of 
> mirroring syncs ... At least AFAIK !! .



        1)What version of Netware are you using ? Netware 3.x  & 4.x 
partitions cannot be vrepired unless they are dimounted first. I recollect 
that 2.1x volumes copuld be vrepaired on the fly. Your vendor should know 
this.
       
        2) You can easily do a restore while a volume is remirroring, mirrored 
drives are in a constant cycle of updates and since a volume has to be mounted 
in order to be mirrored, then its possible, even likely that the drive will be 
having data updates during the initial remirroring process, the volume of 
which shouldn't matter to the mirroring process. Your vendor may have guessed 
this.

        3) If you ran vrepair sucessfuly then there's no reason to dump and 
recreate the volume, restoring the volume data to a vrepaired volume should be 
fine, although if I have to regularly vrepair a volume I usually trash it and 
restore. It makes me feel better.

Apart from the first item the vendor seems to have done relatively well. If 
they know how to vrepair 3.x & 4.x volumes on the fly I'd use 'em. Or maybe 
they were just guessing??

Just MHO
Grant Muir
Network Consulting Manager
Eclipse Computing Ltd. Tokyo