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Title: Hard Drive
Post by: mcube on February 03, 2003, 02:56:00 AM

Currently I'm using a 40GB hard drive and I would like to change to 2 100GB so that I can mirror them. Is there a way that I can put the 100GB hardrives and not lose any data on my current 40GB hard drive?

Thanks

Title: Re: Hard Drive
Post by: Ray Mitchell on February 04, 2003, 05:14:38 AM

Dear mcube

Something similar to this was covered in a previous post a few months or more ago, do a search. The procedure outlined was fairly specific.

The general way to achieve this is to do a backup of your 40Gb drive to tape or desktop depending on how much data it has on it. Then remove the drive.
Then install the 2 x 100Gb drives and install the sme software in a RAID1 config. Then do a restore of your backup. Then load any additional rpms that were installed on the 40Gb drive.

Alternatively you can temporarily remove the 40Gb drive, then install the 2 x 100Gb drives and install the sme software in a RAID1 config. Install any other rpms you want/need that were on the 40Gb drive.
Then install the 40Gb drive as a third HDD although it will only appear as a second HDD, and copy any data from the 40Gb to the 100Gb RAID drive(s).

Hope this helps
Regards
Ray Mitchell