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November 6th, 2006 04:00

EMC Mirroring for Windows Data Source

Hello,

I'm currently searching a solution to run a partition mirroring between two servers (2x Windows Server 2003 R2, Raid 5) with the Autostart software. I thing have installed and configured the Autostart Software 5.2 as it is described in the Autostart Administration Guide.

When I try to generate a new Data Source the message "Mirror driver not active, reboot required" appears in the Status bar. The source node, the destination node and both partition are shown automatically in the Autostart Console window.

No services or applications are running on the partition. It's nearly empty and the size to be mirrored is 60GB.

How can I solve this problem? Does someone knows the problem and can help.

Best regard

Thorsten

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November 6th, 2006 05:00

Hello Thorsten - Yes, I've seen it happen myself. I'm not sure what is causing it, but I managed to fix it by going to the Windows disk manager, changing the drive letter of the partition to be mirrored, applying the change, and then changing it back.
Hopefully it will do the trick for you as well, let me know if it does.

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November 6th, 2006 05:00

Hello Anuj Mediratta,

I'm sorry, but any of these services are running (EMC Autostart Agent, EMC Autostart Backbone, EMC Mirror Service (LgtoMirror.exe), EMC Transport Service).

Thanks

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November 6th, 2006 05:00

Hello Tomislav Ribicic

that is a nice surprice for me. It works. But what could be the reason for?

Thanks for help

Best regards

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November 6th, 2006 05:00

Have you checked all the AutoStart services?

There is a service for mirroring that seems not running when you are trying to create the mirrored data source.

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November 6th, 2006 05:00

It was a surprise for me as well :) but I'm glad to hear it seems to be a valid workaround. I'm also pretty sure that only Windows 2003 R2 systems are affected, so hopefully we should get a patch soon that will take care of this.

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December 28th, 2008 17:00

when you delete the current data Source
and then you want to create it again,
the problem will appears。
win2003

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March 31st, 2009 10:00

Thorsten,

Please note KB esg95908. This has to do with interoperability of the Windows Indexing Service. As Tomislav has pointed out, changing the drive letter works because it resets the Windows Indexing Service.

Cheers!

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April 22nd, 2009 07:00

If that's all it is, is should be ok to just restart the indexing service from the service management console, or am I mistaking?

[edit]
Didn't check the date, sorry. :-X

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