I've done the knoppix thing before to transfer windows boxes, but not with partimage. Usually fat32 so i tar over netcat to tranfer. You'd probably lose ntfs permissions that way though...
When you partimage to the new raid5 set, the filesystem is going to be the same size as on the old disk. But if it's a dynamic disk, i'd imagine you can just expand the volume to however big you need it. ray On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Christian Tortorich wrote: > Awesome scott thanks for the help ill try this out this week and let you > know how it went. I knew this was the right place to ask this question! > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Scott Harney > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 8:53 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] bare metal restore RAID 5 partition > > 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/knop > pix_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 >> > > > -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
