As UNIX Systems Administrators, we want our systems up and running – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Though this could be achievable with the UNIX Operating Systems, we cannot set aside the fact that our hardware equipments is prone to wear and tear. One notable point of failure if our root or boot disks. Once it dies out – our only way is thru our backup and restore it. But there is another way that we could prevent this – if we have a spare identical disk as our root disk. We can have a redundant machine by having our root disks mirrored and make our system much reliable and omit this point of failure. Here are the step-by-step how to guide in mirroring our root/boot disk using the Solaris Volume Manager (SVM).

If in case you are new to our site, Welcome to UNIX Note! The month of May has passed and lots of How-To guides and some UNIX, AIX, Solaris Tips have been shared. Here is a quick round up of the Tips and Tricks as well as How-To guides that you might have missed: