Mirroring a Disk

This procedure mirrors (copies) all concatenated volumes on a disk onto another disk. You can use this procedure to mirror any disk that contains concatenated volumes.

To mirror all concatenated volumes on a disk

Select the disk that contains the concatenated volumes to be mirrored onto another disk.
Choose Disks > Mirror (Selected menu) or Disk Mirror (Command Launcher).

Complete the Mirror Disk dialog box as follows:

Disk Name:	If the correct disk name is not already displayed in this field, type the disk's name or click Browse to select the disk.
Options	To specify the disk to contain the new mirrors, click the Browse button next to the Target Disk(s) field and select a disk.

When you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box, click OK.

Notes:

This task requires a disk name.
Only concatenated volumes that reside on a single disk are mirrored onto the other disk. Any RAID-5, striped, or spanned volumes on the disk are ignored.
Only disks in the same disk group can be used to create the new mirrors.
The target disk must contain sufficient space to accommodate the mirror(s).
A new mirror cannot be created on a disk that already contains a copy of the volume.
If no disks are assigned, the Volume Manager uses available disk space to create the mirror(s).

Mirroring a Disk

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To mirror all concatenated volumes on a disk