I have a RAID mirror (2x 160GB) which I would like to back up onto a spare 160GB drive.
I do not have a hot-swap caddy so I was planning on powering down the system to get the backup drive in and out.
But once I have the new blank drive in, what is the best way to duplicate the RAID? Ideally I would like to create a disk that could boot the system (and rebuild the RAID) in case disaster strikes.
Can dd do this?
I am new to Unix disk operations... Many thanks in advance for the help.
I think that dd if=/dev/<raiddisk> of=/dev/<newdisk> would work in duplicating the entire raid disk. I don't know if there are better ways, so if someone knows them, we would like to know ;)
Cheers!
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