Installation guide

Mirroring your hard drive 15-6
Chapter 15: Initial System Administration
Wave Global Administrator Guide
7 Click Apply.
Detailed results of the backup operation will appear in the Log field. The system
configuration cabinet (CAB) file is stored in the following location:
C:\Inetpub\Ftproot\Private\Iocabfiles
Note: It is recommended that you transfer a copy of the CAB file to a different computer
via FTP for safe storage.
8 Click
Apply again.
9 Click
Done to return to the Management Console.
Mirroring your hard drive
As the last step of the initial configuration you should mirror your redundant hard drive using
Windows Disk Management. This procedure creates a backup of your Wave configuration that
you can fall back on in case of hard drive failure.
Redundant Array of Independent Disks, or RAID, brings another level of fault tolerance to the
Wave Server. RAID is a set of disks (hard drives) that serve collectively as a single, logical
storage device, providing data redundancy. The Disk Management application sets up disk
mirroring, using one hard drive to mirror another with the same controller, so that an exact copy
of the primary hard drive is stored on a secondary, mirrored hard drive.
Whenever you create a mirrored disk, you must use a hard drive of a size equal to or larger than
the primary hard drive; the Disk Management application then creates a partition of the correct
size automatically. It is best to use a new hard drive, preferably one that is identical to the
primary hard drive. For consistency, obtain new hard drives from Vertical Communications.
Depending on the amount of data on the hard drive, it can take up to 30 minutes for Disk
Management to mirror the Wave Server’s
C: drive.
Release 2.0
September 2010