Guest visiperl Posted December 30, 2002 Report Share Posted December 30, 2002 Hi all, does anyone have any suggestions on copying a hard drive with linux on it to a raid drive. I've tried DriveCopy 4.0 and it doesn't seem to see the raid drives? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mywebforums.com Posted January 6, 2003 Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 I am not to sure this can actually be done. RAID Drives are entirely different structure than a standard hard drive in regards to how they are written to. The way the blocks are written to is far different than a standard drive. The only technical way I can see this being done is by configuring your RAID to either RAID 0 or RAID 1 and then "dumping" the data to the RAID system, but I believe your RAID would have to be configured to the exact partition layout as your current drive is. We use RAID here exclusively for our Servers and have only tried a dump once and it was such a disaster that we opted to rebuild our Server and the data on the original drive. Hope this helps. Best Regards! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest visiperl Posted January 6, 2003 Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 Hi, Promise Technologies provided a readme.txt file that gives a step-by-step for installing the OS and then migrating the drive from hda to sda, however, it didn't workout for me for some unknown reason, so I ended up using the "linux dd" at boot and loaded the OS directly to the sda drives, which like yours, worked fine. Thanks for the note! Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counterspy Posted January 6, 2003 Report Share Posted January 6, 2003 This article is the first of two in a series about implementing software raid: http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linu...ml?dwzone=linux . Check out this How-To on ATA Raid: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/ATA-RAID-HOWTO/index.html , this one: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/DPT-Hardware-RAID.html and this one: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux-Promise-RA...OWTO/index.html . If these are not what you are looking for try this site: http://linas.org/linux/raid.html with its many links. This site seems a bit specialized: http://www.linuxraid.org/ . These should keep you goingfor a while. Counterspy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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