[nflug] Replacing Linux Disk Drives (Cloning?)

[Justin Bennett]

Hardware Ultra320 Scsi Perc4.


David J. Andruczyk wrote:
> 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?
>
>
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> --- Justin Bennett <Justin.Bennett at Dynabrade.com> wrote:
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>> 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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