Good choice. Best of luck.
Regards, Hank Arnold My Blog: <http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/personal-pc-assistant/> http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/personal-pc-assistant/ Twitter: @Hank_PCDoc Facebook: <https://www.facebook.com/hank.arnold.96> https://www.facebook.com/hank.arnold.96 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jesse Rink Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 10:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: server migration w/new HDs I plan on just pulling all 4 1TB drives out, jamming in the 4 new 2TB drives, and doing a WSB restore. Thanks for all the input. JR _____ From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [[email protected]] on behalf of Ken Schaefer [[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 5:15 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] RE: server migration w/new HDs If your backup/restore process doesn't work, this is probably one of the better times to find out (since the old disks are available and have current data). Far better to find out now that it doesn't work, rather than when you really need it. Cheers Ken From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: Tuesday, 29 April 2014 10:48 AM To: ntsysadm Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: server migration w/new HDs Backup/restore situations are often ones that bite people in the ass when they least expect it to. In this situation, I would not opt to put that to the test unless it was absolutely a neccessity. -- Espi On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Kent McKinney <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Even if you swap one drive at a time and get the virtual disk size increased, the OS partition would also need to be resized. Its time consuming and will greatly affect server performance. Safest way is to install the server backup feature, do a system state backup, pull the old drives out (with existing data intact that you can always roll back to) create the new array and restore. --- Original Message --- From: "Maglinger, Paul" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: April 28, 2014 5:34 PM To: "'[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> '" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: server migration w/new HDs This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --_000_36DA94300D69184A91500B695547A148481711CCCOMSTAR1scvlcom_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I just talked with someone about a similar situation. HP-UX server running 2 72G mirrored drives and had one fail. The vendor su= bbed a 146G drive. In this case it would rebuild to only 72G of the 146 dr= ive, but the vendor said that if the other 72 drive failed and was replaced= with the 146 then I could extend it to the full 146 at that point . I have not tested this, and am not sure if it would work, but wondering if = you could replace the drives one at a time allowing for the rebuild. I did= something similar with a EVA SAN and was successful. It took a long time,= but I didn't have to take the system down. I'm not sure I'd risk it on a = production system. Can you do a system level backup/restore? From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> = ] On Behalf Of Jesse Rink Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 4:07 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [NTSysADM] server migration w/new HDs Have a Dell T310 server with (4) 1TB sas drives in a RAID5 array, running W= indows 2008R2. Need to replace the drives with (4) 2TB sas drives in a RAI= D5 array. Server only holds 4 physical HD bays so I can't just add an ex= tra array. Curious if anyone has any tricks to speeding up this migration = other than rebuilding the OS from scratch on the (4) new 2Tb sas drives and= reinstalling all the app s on the server, etc. JR
