Recovering and Replacing a Drive Online
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Recovering and Replacing a Drive Online
The online drive recovery operation is designed to recover drives while
your system remains online and without disconnecting clients. This
significantly improves workflow because client machines no longer need
to dismount workspaces during repairs.
When you perform an online drive recovery, remember the following:
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Clients that are not already connected to the MediaNetwork
workgroup (by having a workspace mounted or by running the
Administration Tool) are prevented from connecting to the workgroup
until the recovery is complete. If a connected client logs off or crashes
during disk repair, they will not be able to reconnect.
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Clients are denied write access at some point during online repair,
while the File Manager locks the sets from writes in order to finish the
repair.
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When you recover a drive that is part of a single-user allocation group,
and the recovered drive is in another MEDIArray, the allocation group
will experience degraded performance until the drive is moved to the
same MEDIArray as the other drives in the allocation group. It is best
to move the recovered drive at the same time you remove the bad drive.
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Macintosh client workspaces will be dismounted at the end of the online drive
recovery. In addition, Macintosh clients will need to restart the
Administration Tool if it was running during the recovery process.
To perform an online drive recovery:
1. Click Start, point to Programs, point to Avid Unity, and then select
Setup Manager.
The Setup Manager window opens.
2. If the Data Drive Set group is not already selected in the drive group
list, click its entry to display all the attached active and spare data
drives.
3. Ensure that there is a spare, same-size data drive to replace the failed
data drive.
