Thank you for your answers!.

Regarding to the backups I have an external backup system with bacula +
tapes and another with NFS, so it should not be a problem. The problem is
that I want to do all this process in a short period time to minimize the
downtime.

Be sure that your e-mails will be useful to me. Thank you.

2011/12/20 Nico Kadel-Garcia <[email protected]>

> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Jason Bronner <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Felip.
> >
> > always always always: back up the array. create the new array. move the
> old
> > array to the new array. destroy the old array.
>
> Amen. Also, in making the backup, consider using "star" if you use
> SELinux. rsync and normal tar do not preserve SELinux attributes.
>
> It is a good time to consider your backup policy. RAID is *not*
> backup, and the white paper from Google at
>
> http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf
>

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