RAID1 Question

[verve247]

RAID1 does mirroring. Now can I control the time of mirroring? Say for instance i want at 2 am for the 2nd drive to mirror the first. Then from 2:01am to 1:59am the 1st drive is writing, rewriting, while the 2nd is doing nothing. Then at 2am the 2nd drive updates and this cycle repeat. Possible or do I need some special software?

[ribitch]

it sounds asif you want to clone the drive at specified times. RAID 1 does clone on both drives as it writes to the drive. So when something is written to drive #1, drive #2 gets an exact copy.

[Jeffbx]

Sounds like you need some backup software, not RAID. RAID1 makes the drives appear as a single drive to the OS, so it always writes to both simultaneously.

You probably want to un-RAID them & grab a copy of Ghost or NovaBackup (http://www.no-panic.com/backup/n_backup.html). You can schedule backups to occur whenever you want them to.

Any particular reason you don't just want both drives to be written at the same time?

[verve247]

Originally posted by Jeffbx
Any particular reason you don't just want both drives to be written at the same time?

I thought that it would be cool if i could have a delayed raid setup. So if a stupid user screwed with the computer, i could just rollback to the previous day. Looks like I'm just going to Norton Ghost it. It has scheduled backuping, correct?

[Jeffbx]

Originally posted by verve247
So if a stupid user screwed with the computer, i could just rollback to the previous day.

These limit you a little bit, but here are a couple more things that can do this for you:

Deep Freeze (http://www.deepfreezeusa.com/standard.htm) will lock your PC at a particular point in time. A user screws with it (they can even delete the OS or format it), just reboot & it's back to the state where you froze it.

RestoreIT (http://www.farstone.com/home/en/shtml/ritpoverview.shtml) does the same thing.

There was a Canadian company that was selling a hardware device that had the same capability, but I can't remember the name of it... anyone know what I'm talking about?

[spigidygak]

vote for deep freeze here. Very nice ap, the labs at my school use it with much success.