Synchronize/Redundancy Check All Logical Drives - Promise Technology FastTrak TX4310 User Manual

Automatic Rebuild
Automatic rebuilding of a logical drive is possible under the following conditions:
• The logical drive is a RAID 1 or a 3-drive RAID 5.
See "Create a Logical Drive" on page 68.
• There is a spare drive present in the RAID system.
See "Create a Spare Drive" on page 91.
• Automatic Rebuild Status is enabled in the Controller Settings.
See "Controller Settings" on page 58.
If the three above conditions are met, a logical drive will replace a faulty disk
drive and rebuild itself automatically. WebPAM will report the critical logical drive
and automatic rebuild in its user interface as well as via popup messages.
Depending on your Event Notification settings (see page 47), WebPAM can also
notify you via email message.
When the automatic rebuild operation is completed, you must remove and
replace the faulty physical drive with a new one.
See "Replace the Failed Disk Drive" on page 87 and the FastTrak User Manual
and SuperSwap User Manual for more information on replacing a physical drive.

Synchronize/Redundancy Check All Logical Drives

The Logical Drive View–Synchronization Schedule tab enables you to
synchronize all logical drives. You can also synchronize an individual logical
drive, see page 83.
Synchronization refers to an automated process of checking and correcting data
and parity. Unlike a Rebuild, Synchronization is a maintenance operation.
Redundancy Check is an automated process of checking data and parity but it
only reports and does not correct, any inconsistencies that it finds.
Synchronization and Redundancy Check apply to RAID 1, RAID 5 and RAID 10
logical drives. When an logical drive is first created and you select Full
Initialization, the same action as Synchronization takes place.
To schedule Synchronization for all logical drives:
1. Click on the Logical Drive View icon in Tree View.
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