You expect too much of my RAID controller. :) Ghost won't do it because:
1. There is only room for 3 drives in the system. RAID5 requires 3
drives.
2. Ghost deals in partitions. FreeBSD (usually) has one partition with
many slices.
3. Doubt it has drivers for my RAID array. :)
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Alex Zbyslaw wrote:
Tony Shadwick wrote:
I have a system that we are running in production that there was an
oversight on, and it has a single hard drive installed (32GB SCSI I
believe), rather than a 3 drive raid5 array. We would like to correct
this, but we have all sorts of up-to-date packages and config files that
we've tweaked that we would hate to just start over on it.
There's a tool for OSX called "Carbon Copy Cloner" that would take care of
this for me, which is basically a series of copy commands that takes the
filesystem from one drive to another, preserving EVERYTHING important, and
then bless the boot volume.
If you want two more identical drives then use dump, not tar, but you'd have
to have them sliced/partitioned up the same beforehand and it wouldn't do
bootblocks.
Silly question, but won't your RAID controller do it for you? Or is that
expecting too much?
Or what about using Ghost? No experience of *doing* it myself, but someone I
work with did it very successfully just a couple days ago to get a copy of an
unbootable <hawk, spit> Linux SCSI disk onto an IDE. That would make the
disks identical.
--Alex
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