Setting UP a Mirror Hard Drive

OK so I have a Leopard Server that has 3 hard drives, so I thought that I would set it up so that it mirror's in case of hard drive failure... But apparently I am not smart enough to do this on my own so I'm calling out for help... Could someone please dummy proof this for me... :-
Specs.
Mac OS 10.5.6
Xserve G5
2 GHz
5 GB RAM
It says no RAID installed
Main Server HD = 500 GB
Backup #1 HD = 250 GB
Backup #2 HD = 250 GB
USB External Drive = 1 TB
I'm also in the process of setting up Synchronize Pro that was just recently purchased for backing up...
Greatly appreciate the help...

Your only mirror option is to mirror the two 250GB drives. You'll then need need to either re-install or clone your OS onto that mirror and reboot.
This can all be done via the GUI (Disk Utility.app) or the command line (diskutil), whichever you prefer.
To use the GUI, select one of the 250GB drives, then select the RAID tab.
Drag each of the 250GB drives to the RAID set list and make sure the RAID Type is set to mirror.
Once that's done you can use the restore tab to clone the boot drive to the new mirror. You can do this live, but if the server is busy you would be better off booting from the install DVD and running Disk Utility from there (avoids issues of trying to clone active files).

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Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knows of an easy to use program that can mirror 2 external hard drives over the internet securely. My friend and I have been attempting to set up a system where my external is backed up to his computer and his to mine so that both hard drives are identical. He has winxp and I have OSX.
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For anyone setting up a new external hard drive, I strongly suggest you use these instructions. I was setting up a 2TB drive and the zero-data erase process took 21 hours, but the drive no longer has issues with being disconnected. Link below, instructions from that link copied and pasted below the link. Special thanks to Kappy for the instructions.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2408147&tstart=0
*Extended Hard Drive Preparation*
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
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3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (for Intel Macs) or APM (for PPC Macs) then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
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