RE: [ActiveDir] OT: HP disk upgrade..

[Frank Abagnale]

Cheers Brian, that's an amusing answer!

Brian Desmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Well you need to stash the data somewhere while you change out the disks. Having your DAS unit being tapped out just makes this a more time consuming process. If you have some sort of enterprise backup solution (e.g. netbackup) you could just do a one time job and grab the entirety of the volumes on these disks. If you don’t have some sort of backup system (ok, we shouldn’t be following this part of the answer), you could run ntbackup, and stash the ntbackup somewhere on the network, or elsewhere on the array if you have room. Then, you need to just do the music drives, format the disk, represent it to the OS if necessary, and restore the data from wherever you stashed it.

 

Not too hard really, just plan on lots of time if you don’t have local storage for it … it takes a while to move 220GB of shit across a 100MB link.

 

Thanks,
Brian Desmond

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Abagnale
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 3:05 AM
To: Active
Subject: [ActiveDir] OT: HP disk upgrade..

 

Hi,

Sorry for the OT, I have a HP server with an MSA enclosure attached which is complete with 14 x 72gb disks. The enclosure uses 4 x 72gb disks in a RAID5 set which are used to store backups. I need to upgrade these 4 disks with new 300gb disks. The disks are not used for any other purpose besides storing backups.

 

My initial thought was to do the following:

 

Backup the drive

Break the array

Remove existing disks

Insert new disks

Create new Array

 

Is there a better way to do it, or should this method work?

 

thanks

 - Frank

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