Christian Tortorich wrote: > goes out to Scott Harney and the BRLUG in general for providing me with > a great free method of migrating a RAID 5 set to a different set of > disks (read up below if you want the details). > > It took some research and preparation, but I finally got it to go on our > production web server, which has about about 40 GB of data on it. > > Scott et al, I finally got it to go by using the Ubuntu(sp?) live CD and > apt-getting partimage. I had problem with this particular dell, in > specific the PERC 2 Raid card and AIC scsi drivers on just about every > version of Knoppix causing the system to either not boot or not see the > RAID set. Ubuntu finally got me in there, though.
Glad to hear it worked for you. Dell's gone through several revisions on those blasted PERC cards. The 2650 and 6500 boxes I was using had PERC 3's and 4's that worked well with knoppix as the boot disk for partimage. I'm actually getting ready to use that solution again to "ghost" a Win2k system. I have some boxes that run an application out of a single directory. Rather than waste a legato client license, I'm using cywin's sshd and rsync to back up the dir daily to a solaris box which is backed up by legato. I'll then use the knoppix+partimage procedure to capture the OS in case of catastrophic failure. > I have to say I was frankly amazed when the system booted up with > windows when I was done. No more crunchy old scsi disks! More space! > What a country! > > Thanks again! > Chris > -- 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
