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Title: upgrading hard drives
Post by: jon on July 02, 2005, 03:22:27 PM

quick suggestion...  at some point, almost all of us want to move our smeserver to a larger hard drive or to a raid 1 setup.  both of these situations are very complex unless you have a tape backup or are prepared to use a third party bootable linux distro like knoppix...

i have two suggestions:

1) have an install option to "clone" a working smeserver to another installed hard drive and

2) have an option to move from a single drive to a raid 1 setup.


comments????

Title: Re: upgrading hard drives
Post by: gordonr on July 03, 2005, 12:33:04 AM

Quote from: "jon"

1) have an install option to "clone" a working smeserver to another installed hard drive and

That one is fairly easy. You don't need Knoppix as you can do it all from the shell of the normal installer. That said, it wouldn't be hard to write a kickstart file which did this automagically.

Quote from: "jon"

2) have an option to move from a single drive to a raid 1 setup.

A very nice idea and one I've thought about for a while. I'd really like to avoid the cost of copying the existing filesystems to the new RAID mirror - that can be a very long time for large disks.

Title: Re: upgrading hard drives
Post by: gordonr on July 13, 2005, 05:16:53 AM

Quote from: "gordonr"

Quote from: "jon"

2) have an option to move from a single drive to a raid 1 setup.

A very nice idea and one I've thought about for a while. I'd really like to avoid the cost of copying the existing filesystems to the new RAID mirror - that can be a very long time for large disks.

7.0Alpha24 has this shiny new feature.