Comments on: Mirroring isn’t a backup solution http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/mirroring-isnt-a-backup-solution/ Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:04:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: mrdenny http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/mirroring-isnt-a-backup-solution/#comment-154 mrdenny Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:18:45 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/?p=299#comment-154 I've posted an [A href="http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/journalspacecom-says-the-site-was-trashed-by-the-it-guy/"]update[/A] on the [A href="http://www.journalspace.com/blog/"]JournalSpace.com[/A] shutdown. I’ve posted an update on the shutdown.

]]> By: Jerry Lees http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/mirroring-isnt-a-backup-solution/#comment-153 Jerry Lees Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:12:35 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/?p=299#comment-153 Ahhhh, I missed that in the year. I wondered why the months were all jumbled up. At any rate, you'd think they would have SOME sort of backup no matter how old. Ahhhh, I missed that in the year. I wondered why the months were all jumbled up.

At any rate, you’d think they would have SOME sort of backup no matter how old.

]]> By: mrdenny http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/mirroring-isnt-a-backup-solution/#comment-152 mrdenny Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:06:02 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/?p=299#comment-152 I was going through the twitter, and it looks like upgrade was from October 2007. The twitter account went dark for over two years then came back up with the problems a few days ago. From what I'm seeing performance tanked, new hard drives were ordered and I would assume they tried to old remove one smaller/slower drive and insert new larger/faster drive and let the array rebuild which should have gone fine, unless the remaining drive had a hiccup, but that should have broken the array not wiped the file. There isn't much info in the twitter. More information would be nice so we can all analyze what happened. I was going through the twitter, and it looks like upgrade was from October 2007. The twitter account went dark for over two years then came back up with the problems a few days ago.

From what I’m seeing performance tanked, new hard drives were ordered and I would assume they tried to old remove one smaller/slower drive and insert new larger/faster drive and let the array rebuild which should have gone fine, unless the remaining drive had a hiccup, but that should have broken the array not wiped the file.

There isn’t much info in the twitter. More information would be nice so we can all analyze what happened.

]]> By: Jerry Lees http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/mirroring-isnt-a-backup-solution/#comment-151 Jerry Lees Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:58:51 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/sql-server/?p=299#comment-151 Looks to me from their twitter they were in the middle of an upgrade and it went bad... very bad. Always break a mirror before a major upgrade-- especially if you don't have backups. Looks to me from their twitter they were in the middle of an upgrade and it went bad… very bad.

Always break a mirror before a major upgrade– especially if you don’t have backups.

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