Topic: SME 7.2 Upgrade Raid 1 to Raid 5

[mdrum]

I currently have SME 7.2 installed and running on a server using 2 Mirrored 320GB IDE Drives.  I have just added 4 additional 320GB SATA drives.  I want to get the most disk space so I should be using raid 5 over the 6 drives.  I intend to back up the server then reinstall SME 7.2.  According to the manual SME will install using raid5 over 5 disks and keeping one hot spare.  As this is only a home server I would like the "hot spare" included in the array.  How do I do this ?

For the backup I want to leave every custmisation behind ie I only want to restore Users, Groups, Ibays, passwords, and UPS settings Is this possible.  Or do I need to recreate all accounts etc from scratch.  BTW I use a 400GB external HDD for backup.

Thanks for any pointers

Mike Drummond

[SoftDux]

If I'm not mistaken, you need to boot up with the option "nospare" as a boot paramater

[raem]

mdrum

For the backup I want to leave every custmisation behind ie I only want to restore Users, Groups, Ibays, passwords, and UPS settings Is this possible.

You cannot easily selectively remove customisations from the backup.

You can remove the customisations from the server and then do the backup
Alternatively remove rpms with
rpm -e packagename
and/or remove additional custom templates you added.


This may be of some help
http://wiki.contribs.org/Backup_server_config