Hello all
I've done a pretty good search through the forum messages, and can't find an answer to this one - if it's there, just post the link and I'll be on my merry way...
I've got a 5.6 server (latest release) with a IDE 2 gig drive connected as the /boot disk/partition to the motherboard controller. I've got a 120 Gig drive connected to a PCI controller (I think it's a SIIG brand) and split into several partitions, mounted at various points in the filesystem. It's been running pretty flawlessly this way as a samba/webserver for months now. I'm realizing I'm feeling uncomfortable without a backup for the data on the 120G drive, so I'd like to add a second 120G disk (they're damn cheap these days) to the PCI controller and turn on software RAID across just those 2 disks. I'm not overly concerned about backing up the 2G drive - I figure I can just image it onto the big disk and let RAID do its magic. I don't have a current way to backup/restore the 120G drive.
Is there an easy way to turn on & "sync-up" a second disk as a RAID mirror without going through the whole backup - reintall - restore hassle since I'm not turning on RAID across the boot disk?
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