From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Can you IMAGE Mirrored OS Drives? Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:18:26 -0400 Message-ID: <44FC6DF2.7010206@tmr.com> References: <44E250CD.5040308@aol.com> <44E2EE20.9010004@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <44E2EE20.9010004@aol.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: andy liebman Cc: gordon@drogon.net, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Alternatives would be to have two such backup devices, and configure them, as andy liebman wrote: > > I may not have been clear what I was asking. I wanted to know if you > can make DISK IMAGES -- for example, with a program like Norton Ghost > or Acronis True Image (better) -- of EACH of the two OS drives from a > mirrored pair. Then restore Image A to one new disk, Image B to > another disk. And then have a new working mirrored pair. May I say belatedly (I've been flat out since July 1) that if I were making a significant number of these clones, I'd write a script so that I could clone one drive, drop it in another machine, and let the script run on the other machine to finish the job. I have no idea how many of these you are doing, but automation is nice to avoid finger checks. -- bill davidsen CTO TMR Associates, Inc Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979