It should work this way: 1. goto RAID BIOS 2. offline both RAID1 HDDs 3. create a RAID0 in hotspare drive 4. change 'bootable VD' 5. do your restore tests
To go back to your original configuration I would recommend to just online one of your both RAID1 HDDs and rebuild the other if all is fine. This approach has two advantages, avoid issue when forcing 2x HDDs online at once and you still have your data available on your 2nd HDD if something goes wrong with 1st one. One thing you need to consider in your scenario, if you're using /dev/sdX device numbering. Your RAID1 will usually be /dev/sda (even if you failed/offlined it) and your RAID0 will be /dev/sdb. This might affect GRUB, mount points etc. from your restored image. Jens. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gernot Hassenpflug Sent: 19 March 2010 09:15 To: linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: swapping RAID1 disk and hot-swap disk for restore image test Dear all, I've set up a R610 with PERC6/i and PERC6/e controllers and MD1000 backup. The R610 has 3 disks: 2 in RAID1 configuration, and 1 as a hot-swap. Before client data was added, I created a restore image using Clonezilla, and tested it on the RAID1 disks successfully (data is over-written by restore process). Now after client data has been added, I have a maintenance time coming up next week where I want to create another restore image and test it---but if possible without deleting data or interfering with the RAID1 configuration. So I want to disable the two RAID1 disks in the BIOS, and use the hot-swap disk as the system disk, do a restore to the new single disk, and test that it runs. Then I want to switch back to the original RAID1 and hot-swap configuration. What I wonder is whether the controller will have an trouble if I disable and reenable RAIDs in this manner? Many thanks in advance for comments and opinions. Regards, Gernot Hassenpflug _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
