Re: [Nolug] Backing up linux

Joey Kelly wrote:
> On Friday 15 February 2008 02:49:25 pm Petri Laihonen wrote:
>
>>> Software RAID works really well and removes the possibility of broken
>>> hardware.
>>>
>>> But, yes, do use RAID of some sort.
>>>
>> I've never used Software RAID in the corporate environment, but do use
>> SW RAID5 at home..... works very well.
>> However, I have recently started wondering about how would I
>> successfully move that raid stack to another computer, with more recent
>> OS. Current one is running Fedora 4. The new one could still stay in Fedora
>> realm, but probably would be one of the debian derivatives....
>>
>> Without having done any excessive research on this, I would assume some
>> of the "md" files need to be copied over with the actual drives....
>>
>
> If you're scared like me, put up the new box, get it working like you want,
> then copy the data over manually.
>
>
That would not work, since I would have to have a new set of hard
drives to copy into. Or a huge drive to store the data temporarily.
(this would be a potential failure point to lose the data....)

Petri

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