[nflug] Replacing Linux Disk Drives (Cloning?)

[David J. Andruczyk]

Are these drivers HARDWARE mirrored  (i.e. onboard raid card, like a Perc4)
or software mirrored like in terms of Linux MD software raid or LVM?



--- Justin Bennett <Justin.Bennett at Dynabrade.com> wrote:

> Hey Folks,
> 
>     I believe this was touched upon a little in some of the cloning 
> talk, but I have a 2U Dell Poweredge Running Redhat 3ES,  that has a 
> pair of Mirrored 72GB drives (only has 2 drive bays), I need to replace 
> these with a larger pair of drives (146GB) due to running out of space. 
> I am hoping to not have to reload and reconfigure the whole box, but if 
> I have to I can. Have you guys had any luck cloning like this? What 
> products have you used. In the past I have tar'd the whole file system 
> (minus /proc) to tape, loaded a fresh installation, and tar'd back over 
> the fresh installation with decent results but haven't done this in 
> years. The biggest issue I have is only having 2 drive bays, and wanting 
> a mirrored configuration, Normally I could build a second logical pair, 
> with the two new drives and do a Disk to Disk with something like ghost, 
> I can't really do that with only 2 drive bays.
> 
> Thanks
> Justin
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-- David J. Andruczyk


 
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