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Firewire mirroring - possible to do this simply on MacOS?
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Ye Olde LC User
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Feb 21, 2005, 09:31 PM
 
I'm just about to take delivery of a new Mac Mini with an 80GB hard disk. I have an external 2.5" 80GB Firewire disk that's little used, so I was wondering, is there a novice friendly way to set up mirroring to this external disk? I'm guessing this kind of thing's built-in to MacOS Server, but can the desktop edition handle this too?
     
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Feb 21, 2005, 10:35 PM
 
Disk Utility has a Raid tab that allows mirroring and striping.
     
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Feb 22, 2005, 01:11 PM
 
Originally posted by X-Ti:
Disk Utility has a Raid tab that allows mirroring and striping.
The problem with this is that yuo can not boot from a RAID drive. Not sure if this is standard, but this is the case with Apple's software RAID implementation. Sux eh? I had the same idea for my Mini, which I use as a web server - this would have been perfect to RAID-1 the drives for automatic backup...

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