Re: moving failing system disk to 2xnew RAID1

[Max Waterman <davidmaxwaterman+gmane@fastmail.co.uk>]

Thanks for the links.

One last question....does the fedora core (specifically version 4) 
installation's RAID install use md for RAID?

(I guess I'm a little unclear on how the different Linux raid solutions 
differ, if at all).

Max.

Henrik wrote:
> Hi Max
> 
> If you are moving you data archives it is "that simple". If you want to run your entire system on top of a software RAID1 I suggest one of the many "run-root-ontop-of-software-raid" tutorials out there.
> 
> http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~mr349/ide_raid_howto.html (one of them). 
> 
> A bunch of others: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/os.html
> (search for "root" inside document).
> 
> If you are using debian you are (as usual?) blessed: http://alioth.debian.org/download.php/668/rootraiddoc.97.html
> 
> That will get you started and we'll wait for the "not so simple" questions that might arise.
> 
> Obviously the easist way is to first get the RAID1 running, than copy the data and finally- the delicate details of making a bootup possible from the RAID1.
> 
> Good luck and merry christmas by the way! :-)
> 
> /Henrik Holst
> 
> -----Original message-----
> From: Max Waterman davidmaxwaterman+gmane@fastmail.co.uk
> Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:07:19 +0100
> To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: moving failing system disk to 2xnew RAID1
> 
>> Andy Smith wrote:
>>> On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 09:27:28AM +0800, Max Waterman wrote:
>>>> Max Waterman wrote:
>>>>> What would the procedure be for moving the data off my (single) Maxtor 
>>>>> onto a RAID1 of 2 WD800JBs?
>>>>>
>>>>> Max.
>>>> Well, I didn't get a response to this question :|
>>> All three disks are in the same machine?  If so, create the RAID 1
>>> and then copy the files over onto it..  Sorry this seems too simple
>>> so I probably have misunderstood the question.
>> Maybe, maybe not...
>>
>> The gotcha, in my mind, is that this is the boot disk (to all intents 
>> and purposes, the only disk in the machine).
>>
>> But maybe it's still simple?
>>
>> Max.
>>
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