An interesting and entertaining description of the problem. I saw some other suggestions. Another idea: Can you install Win2k on the new volume and then restore the old set via a backup?
Yes, PERC's are fun. Murali (who lurks on this list) has a lot of experience troubleshooting PERC's. Murali? --- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Download "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" http://www.puryear-it.com/bestpractices_ebook.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christian Tortorich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 6:29 PM Subject: [brlug-general] bare metal restore RAID 5 partition 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 _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
