Moving raid to different machine
Phillip T. George
phillip at eacsi.com
Tue May 10 14:18:16 UTC 2005
Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Ashley M. Kirchner writes:
>
>>
>> With a mail spooler going down yesterday, I'm faced with a small
>> problem. The machine, running RH7.3, had a raid consisting of 2 SCSI
>> drives that were striped together (software raid.) Is there some way
>> I can pull these drives out with their controller, stick them in a
>> different machine, get the raid going, and be able to pull the data
>> off? If so, how? I don't know if there are certain files I need,
>> but on backup I have /etc but no /boot (which is where grub lived in
>> those days.)
>>
>> The raidtab as it was looks like this:
>>
>> raiddev /dev/md0
>> raid-level 0
>> nr-raid-disks 2
>> chunk-size 64k
>> persistent-superblock 1
>> nr-spare-disks 0
>> device /dev/sda1
>> raid-disk 0
>> device /dev/sdc1
>> raid-disk 1
>
>
> Try this: install Fedora on another box. When you install it create a
> small raid partition somewhere. Doesn't matter what it actually is,
> the only thing that needs to happen is to have anaconda create an
> initrd that loads the raid modules at boot time. Then, you should be
> able to move your old disks to the other machine, and they should come
> up at boot.
>
>
Sam,
I didn't have to create any sort of raid for the modules to load at boot
time. I might of had to set some kind of service to start--but I don't
think I even had to do that! It was great :)
-Phillip
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