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Title: Creating a Raid1
Post by: hturnage on January 16, 2007, 04:58:27 AM

I just upgraded one of my servers from 6.5 to 7.1.  All went well with the upgrade however, I added a second drive to the server but since this was an upgrade I can no longer create a mirror according to the SME guide http://smeserver.sourceforge.net/sme70/OnePageManual?v=36k#h72-4
It says I must perform a clean install then do a restore.  I've read several posts.  It seems to me I should be able do this manually but I'd like some input.  It certainly would be easier than a new install and restoring from tape.

Thanks

hal

Title: Creating a Raid1
Post by: Gaston94 on January 16, 2007, 07:33:16 PM

Hi,
is your disk free of data / partitions ?
I do not see much reason for such behaviour :?

Nevertheless, adding manually a disk for a SME7 RAID1 setting is quite simple:

create same disk layout on both disk
join the new disk to the raid array
monitor task

et voilà. More detailled informations here (http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=35109.0)
Be carefull as tariqf was having a specific configuration, and do not forget the grub step.

G.

Title: Re: Creating a Raid1
Post by: gordonr on January 16, 2007, 09:04:55 PM

Quote from: "hturnage"

It seems to me I should be able do this manually but I'd like some input.  It certainly would be easier than a new install and restoring from tape.

http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130

Perform a backup first!