Topic: Solved - Restoring Data

[Bud]

Hi Guys hope you can Help

I have a SME 7.3 Server with a 320Gig IDE Drive. It has Crashed due to bad blocks on the Drive. (This was my Primary Boot Drive with ALL my Data)

Reinstalled SME 7.3 on Two SATA 500Gig Drives (Raid 1)

How do I restore my Data from the Old 320Gig IDE onto the New 500Gig Sata Drives.

I can Mount the 320Gig using the SME 7.3 Rescue Boot CD and can see all my Data but How do I Copy it to say a Windowz PC or to the New 500Gig Sata Drives?

Please Help 

[JoshuaR]

I don't know much about the rescue boot cd, but if it were me I'd just toss the IDE drive into an enclosure, and use something like Acronis (you can use a free trial actually) or Ghost to clone it to the new sata drive (also in an enclosure or just in a Windows machine), then put both sata drives back into your server, and let the data sync from the cloned sata drive onto the other...

[Bud]

JoshuaR Thanks so much for your help

I was hoping that there was a way for me to just " MOUNT " the old IDE 320Gig Drive on the New SME 7.3 System and then just Copy the Data to the New 500Gig Sata Raid Volume.

How do I mount the Old IDE Drive. I have Use mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/olddata and that is OK but what I need to do is mount the Partition " hda2 " that is on the IDE 320Gig

Thanks again 

[CharlieBrady]

How do I mount the Old IDE Drive. I have Use mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/olddata and that is OK but what I need to do is mount the Partition " hda2 " that is on the IDE 320Gig

To mount the partition you will need to rename the logical volume group on the old drive, to avoid a name clash. Some short instructions here:

http://wiki.contribs.org/UpgradeDisk

To understand more of the background of LVM and RAID data recovery, read this:

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8874

[Bud]

CharlieBrady Thanks for your Input

I have read the info on the Links you Suggested a Few times in the Past and Now I know what it means. Thanks for Reminding me about them.

Thanks it Worked and I'm back up and running again.

Long Live SME