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I have just done this in a Xserve G5 I used Hitachi 500Gb drives in a RAID1 mirror and 3rd drive a s snapshot All went well apart from- Read write activity lights on front of drive sleds do not work If the RAID 1 mirror is broken/degraded you cannot hotswop drive and re-add to RAID, you have...

Hi I usually find ARD sometimes does not work as it should and requires a small helping hand to work. I generally run this command in terminal when ARD misbehaves (you will need to ssh to server to do this)- cd /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources...

Hi We have quite a few Xserve's running software RAID's but in a slightly different configuration to the one mentioned above. We run the first and second bays as a RAID1 mirror that is image from our standard carbon copy cloner disk image. 3rd bay contains snapshot drive that is run twice a...

Arri I find disk utility to be rather buggy when it comes to creating back-ups of drives. Personally I use Carbon Copy Cloner to do this, just select "make disk image" in prefs. http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html This method is best done booted from another drive Regards Ed

Software raid booting does work using the Apple Disk utility method, I have used it many times. One of the quirks with a software raid is that it sometimes needs an NVRAM reset in order to boot correctly. Do you know how to do this? Here is the kbase article-...