GOT IT!!! 
Most of the gyrations from my last post were unnecessary. After cloning the primary mirror drive to the other 80GB drive which I had formatted, I put it in the Snap Server 2200 to verfity that the copy was good. It booted up with both shares visible, and all the data intact!!!
Apparently the cloning process broke the mirror and all is well. My new 200GB drives will go into the 2200 as a 187GB mirror.
What a trip....
THANK YOU to all of the contributors and posters to this forum. There is no way in the world I could have succeded without your help.
Sam, Zoner, Misterbill.... Kudos. I'm staying a part of this forum.
For just a bit more than I would have spent on a billed SnapAppliance tech support call, I have 3 new 200GB Seagate drives as well!!!
Quoted from Zoner post 627
Destination: Seagate 300GB ATA-100 ST3300831A-RK
1) In another PC, I hooked up the 40GB as MASTER and the 300GB as slave (same IDE channel)
2) Using a boot floppy with GHOST.EXE, ran the following command as mentioned earlier in this thread:
ghost.exe -clone,mode=copy,src=1,dst=2 -ir
The whole clone process took only about 70 minutes.
3) Installed the 300GB and changed it to Master. Booted up the Snap and it was recognized as a 40GB drive.
4) Using the SuperSecret url (tm), (http://mysnapserver/config/debug), I put in
config devices format 10000 /reinit
5) Viola 137GB :-(
6) Realized I need SnapOS 4. Got a copy of it (THANKS AGAIN) and installed it.
7) Rebooted, and still 137GB. Go back to step #4, and
6) Viola 300GB :-) !!!!!
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Originally Posted by Dave_in_Dallas
I'm taking wagers on if this desperate measure will work..........sorry if it is unclear.
Snap Appliance tech support told me that I could not repair my broken mirror since my 80GB primary drive "knew" that it was part of a mirrored set. Installing a new blank replacement drive with the OS on it would not allow it to rebuild because it would be seen as a single drive [ID 10000 or 1000010] and not part of a mirrored set.
Sooooooooooo... desperation creates some fuzzy logic.
I've cloned my broken 80 GB Primary Snap Mirror drive to a larger 200GB drive with ghost.
I then used two separate new 200GB drives and created a mirror with no data on the Snap Server.
Now I have a clean 187GB primary mirror and a backup mirror each ID'd as 50000.
with no data on it, plus a 76,319 Primary mirror drive clone on a 200 GB drive [this came from the 80GB remaining Snap drive]. Don't know what will happen with the extra unused space...
Next planned step is to insert the remaining drive in position One. [Physical position does matter according to Snap Tech Support] and see if the system is faked out to rebuilding the mirror.........
Thoughts and input are appreciated...  |