resilver

verb — 2 senses

resilver

verb

Etymology From re- + silver.

1

To silver again.

  • It often becomes necessary to resilver the small mirror used in a microscope, sextant, or other instrument of precision.1939, Popular Science, volume 134, number 2, page 261:
2

Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To synchronize the mirror disk of the RAID array with the master disk.

  • To get back to our RAID 0 +1 configuration, disk volume A will be “resilvered” up to disk B, which runs at the current point in time.2010, Robert G. Freeman, Matthew Hart, Oracle RMAN 11g Backup and Recovery:
Derived terms
resilverer

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