I was afraid of that. Thanks for the reply. It may make better sense to have multiple servers for a bit anyways. Hopefully soon we will be getting a dedicated Dell server for this so I can just set it up to do backups and leave the current ones in archive mode until at such a time that the data is outdated.
Thank you very much. On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote: > Kameleon wrote: > > To simplify what I am trying to accomplish I will explain it this way: > > > > We currently have 2 backuppc servers. Both have 2x 1TB drives in a Raid1 > > array. What I want to do is move all the drives into one machine and set > > it up as a Raid5. That would give us 3TB usable rather than 2TB usable. > > Hence why I need to move everything to one setup. > > > > Thanks for any guidance. > > There's no good way to merge existing pooled files if that is what you > are asking. Or to convert a Raid1 to a Raid5 without losing the > contents. I'd recommend building a new setup the way you want and > holding on to the old systems for as long as you might have a need to > restore from their older history, or perhaps generating tar images that > you can store elsewhere with BackupPC_tarCreate. Once the new system > has collected the history you need you can re-use the old drives. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikes...@gmail.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and > easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > 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/ >
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