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Title: Adding second HD
Post by: barryc on February 27, 2022, 06:10:26 PM

I have an existing 10.0 install running on a server with a single hard drive.  I want to add a second drive to get software RAID 1.

On previous SME versions, you simply plug in a second drive.  Now from the docs, I understand that if SME 10 is installed to a single drive, RAID is not enabled.  The how to for adding a second drive assumes SME 9.0 or earlier.

Is is correct to say that a reinstall onto a pair of drives is the only way to get RAID 1 with 10.0?

Thanks,
Barry.

Title: Re: Adding second HD
Post by: TerryF on February 27, 2022, 10:11:41 PM

At simplesest Yes, there is no paddle :-) ..see here - https://forums.koozali.org/index.php/topic,54389.msg284647.html#msg284647

Also in that post Note ref to centos and manually adding HD and raid1 setup

and this discussion is also very interesting re adding a array for data to an existing setup
https://forums.koozali.org/index.php/topic,54596.msg286335.html#msg286335

Title: Re: Adding second HD
Post by: Jean-Philippe Pialasse on February 28, 2022, 02:53:27 AM

not only way but simpler and reasonable way.

you still can create a new degraded array and rsync your sme files on it ans make it bootable. 
that is quite a journey, not impossible… but out of what most SME admins are intended to do.

so back to square one.  backup and restore to new install.