It need not be destructive.
set up raid 1 mirroring with the original disk marked as failed, create
the raid and run it. cp -a old disk / to /dev/mdx / set up lilo for
raid1, make a boot diskett, boot from it and mount the raid1. fix the
raidtab and raidhotadd the old disk to the array. reboot and you are in
business.
Michael
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Is there any sign of RAID-1 that's non-destructive? This is making my
> life living hell right now. :)
>
> I haven't been keeping up, so if there is a 2.2 patch or perhaps
> something in 2.3 that supports it, I would be most gracious (perhaps a method
> that isn't described in the howto?)
>
> I would really like to be able to walk into a good portion of my
> clients and offer this, but the tedium of backup/partition/bootdisk/raid
> setup/restore is too much on a time-per-hour basis to offer them... I
> unfortunately have been having to offer "new technology" to long-standing
> UNIX clients who demand RAID-1 (which sickens me) to cover these needs since
> the price of hardware RAID controllers is even worse (and slower).
>
> Any help or kludges that can get me around this would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> --
> Erik Hollensbe
> I-Net Consultants
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
