Topic: Changing out a hard drive

[troykd]

I bought a new, bigger drive for my SME Server.  To swap it out with the old drive and not lose everything...  do I just backup the old one and do a fresh install / recover on the new drive?  

Should I expect to lose anything with this migration?  

Any recommendations for a smooth transition?

Thanks
Troy

[MSmith]

I've had good results with Norton Ghost; when copying to a bigger drive, I manually adjust the /boot and /swap partitions to the same size they were on the old drive, allowing / to expand to fill the remaining capacity.

5.5, 5.6 and 6.0 tested successfully; 7.0, not.  But it would seem that at worst it wouldn't work, at best you'd have everything exactly as it was on a bigger drive.

You might also look at g4u (Ghost for Unix), but as I understand it g4u does NOT support resizing of partitions.

If your drive is a retail one you might've gotten a CD, MaxBlast or the Western Digital equivalent.  Those contain clone utilities as well and might be able to handle EXT2/3.

Good luck!

[troykd]

By doing a fresh install of SME, the drive should be partitioned correctly right?  If I do a restore, will that hose up the drive considering it's a differnet size?

I have Norton Ghost, didn't know it did Linux.

Thanks

[MSmith]

By doing a fresh install of SME, the drive should be partitioned correctly right?  If I do a restore, will that hose up the drive considering it's a differnet size?

I have Norton Ghost, didn't know it did Linux.

Thanks

"... right?"  Yes.
"differnet (sic) size?"  No.

"... did Linux."  My licensed Ghost 2003 certainly does.  Haven't tried any later versions as have had no need, as yet.

[troykd]

MSmith...  Thanks!  I'll give it a shot.

Troy