dnk wrote: > > > But back onto topic, I suspect (but have not tested or done) one > could just clone the drive to an external source... modify the raid > configuration, rebuild the raid and assuming partitions are the same > size (and same hardware), just clone it back? > > That is a first thought without having actually done it myself, or > having really investigating it. My rather vague answer is mostly due > to the fact I just started playing with backuppc about a month ago, > and have not even put it into production (just at the testing phase > in VM's). > > d > >
Partitions won' have the same size. The system on my 3 year old Poweredge 2950 right now is Mandriva but all other servers are CentOS. So I want to use CentOS on that server too. There are 6 disks in the server: 2x250-2x250-2x500, which is good for 1TB of data. All 250GB will be replaced by 500GB, raid5. That way I will have 2,5TB disk space. I have an external 1TB USB drive where I can move all important data to it, put a new system on it and restore BackupPC. No idea if BackupPC will recognize all previous backups. -- Diederik ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/