Christian Tortorich wrote: > I have had this nagging problem for a bit and was wondering if anyone > knew a way to accomplish it (relatively painlessly)
knoppix can help. It comes with partimage which can easily image NTFS partitions. You need a temporary place to store the data Here's how I did it. http://www.scottharney.com/cgi-bin/blog.cgi/Computers/OS/Linux/Tips/knoppix_and_partimage.writeback basically I had a solaris box nearby running nfs so I saved the image temporarily to an nfs share. But you could save it to a locally attached extra disk (firewire, usb2) because knoppix will recognize that or even a samba share. knoppix recognizes all the perc controllers I've thrown at it up to PERC/4 > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -- Scott Harney<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Asking the wrong questions is the leading cause of wrong answers" gpg key fingerprint=7125 0BD3 8EC4 08D7 321D CEE9 F024 7DA6 0BC7 94E5
