On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 09:33:30AM -0500, James wrote:
> 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?
If you can add the new drives to your system (maybe you need an
additional SCSI/SAS card) you could boot the old system in single user
mode, then manually create the partitions and copy everything over
using "cp -ax". I did that many times. Tapes are really small and
slow, or really expensive.
Cheers,
florin
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