I have had this nagging problem for a bit and was wondering if anyone knew a way to accomplish it (relatively painlessly)
I have an entire new disk set for a raid5 volume on one of my servers (which happens to be win2k). The old volume is slow and crunchy and generally frightening. I was wondering if anyone knew of a relatively painless way to migrate that set over to another disk set of different sized disks, OS and all. The problem is it's a win2k box that was set up before I got here and both OS and data are mixed on the volume. It's a webserver hosting multiple domains and would generally be a pain to migrate. I know this isn't really a linux question but I was wondering if anyone had solved this before (not theoretically, but actually done it) BTW, If I put the new disks into the box with the old ones and create a new volume, it tanks after 6-8 hours or so (yay for PERC raid controllers..... hip hip....not so much?) Is there a way to maybe boot into a liveCD and dd the thing over the network to a file on another box and swap em out? Thoughts? Chris
