MAC OS X G5 Server/ Hardware RAID

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fbatarseh

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Hi
I got actually two questions related to the same subject above:

1. I got two MAC G5 servers. One of them has a hardware RAID card with the following details:

LSI,523:

Name: LSILogic,raid
Type: scsi-2
Bus: PCI
Slot: SLOT-2
Vendor ID: 0x1000
Device ID: 0x1960
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x1000
Subsystem ID: 0x4523
Revision ID: 0x0001

I tried to find online the same card to install in the other server, but couldn't found it. I wonder if they stop selling it, or I'm using the wrong keyword search?

2. The purpose of the needing of this card is to do Hardware RAID on the server. I need to backup the files into Apple Drives. The process is to have two backup drives that will be switched every week, so I would have the backup files updated weekly. And for some reason if one drive went down, i still have the other from last week backed up. I think the process is called Mirror, but i would be also thankful if you could help me on how to do this idea?

Thank you
 
If this is the Apple card for a G5, the card is no longer in production. You'd have to find it second hand, which may be possible.

You can do software mirroring with the Xserve. That's usually how I setup these machines. It doesn't require the card. If a drive fails, the other drive will continue to run your server. You can also use that third drive to do scheduled replication jobs of vital files from the boot mirror for backup.

Michael
 
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