On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:33:30 -0500, James <jucziz6 at gmail.com> wrote: > Howdy, > Currently I am running CentOS 5 on a Dell Poweredge 2400 with 4 18gig > drives > in a raid 5 configuration and 2 9gig drives setup as a mirror. I just > purchases 4 36gig drives so my question is if there's a way to move the > operating system with a tape backup. Some sort of live recovery process? James, My recommendation would be to go through install as far as building the partitions and giving yourself a boot loader. After that, the following procedure has worked for me: https://www.secure-computing.net/wiki/index.php/Dump_Over_SSH I don't know how specific it is to FreeBSD, but it may work for you. Or, it could be a good opportunity to switch to a superior OS. :P HTH Eric Crist