[K12OSN] RAID1 and cloning K12LTSP

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Thu Jul 30 17:37:15 UTC 2009


On 07/29/2009 09:37 PM, Jesse McDonnell wrote:
> My existing setup is K12LTSP5.0.0EL-64bit (upgraded to Centos 5.3) installed on a 160G SATA drive with separate / /home&  /swap partitions, 4G ram, Athlon X2 4600+ CPU. It works perfectly and I rsync the home directories to another pc to avoid data loss. Now, I want to replace the 160G drive with two 300G SATA drives in a raid1 setup and I'm looking for advice/modifications on the upgrade route of doing a virgin raid1 install and immediately replacing it like so:
>
> 1. Physically disconnect 160G drive and connect two new drives.
> 2. Using K12LTSP5.0 discs (from 2007), do fresh minimal install setting up raid partitions / /home and /swap -reboot to make sure everything works.
> 3. Reconnect 160G drive, boot in rescue mode (maybe use knoppix disc). Copy /etc/fstab for new raid1 install somewhere safe.
> 4. Delete contents of /home and / partitions on each raid1 drive and copy over contents of / (except for /etc/fstab) and /home from 160G drive.
> 5. Restore /etc/fstab to 300G drives.
> 6. Disconnect 160G drive and reboot in rescue mode, chroot to /mnt/sysinstall and run grub-install (on both drives?)
>
> In theory this looks like it should work, but we all know the devil is in the details! Are there any major gotchas etc?
>
> Jesse

http://togami.com/~warren/guides/remoteraidcrazies/
This guide with some variations for your unique situation should give 
you some ideas.

Warren




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