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.
You would? Why? restore doesn't care where you're restoring to... you'd
just need to make sure you were in / before restoring and then tweak
/etc/fstab to suit...
right?
-philip
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