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How to transfer data appropriately to setup new RAID drives

Asked by ssittig in Hard Drives & Storage

Tags: raid, new, transfer

I have a Windows 2000 (SBS2000 actually) server that I want to create a RAID setup with. We have been operating with tape backup only for a while but would like to have a higher level of protection.

I have two hard drives installed that are used now, one Fujitsu 18.2GB and one Fujitsu 36.7GB. I recently installed a HP NetRaid 4M RAID controller and hooked up two new Fujitsu 18.2GB (exactly the same as the original installation) and two new Fujitsu 36.7GB (also exactly the same as the original installation). I created two mirrored hard drive containers with the 4M. So I have a total of six drives, installed, two original drives and four new drives that represent mirrored versions of the originally installed drives.

My plan is to copy the current drives exactly to the new containers, remove the old drives and hope to have the system working off the new RAID setup. After I'm satisfied that the setup works, I'd like to reintroduce the drives as dedicated hot spares for each container matching the size of the drives.

I'm not sure how to copy/move/mirror the data over exactly from the original hard drives to the new containers. I'd like to avoid having to use the tape backup route, is there any easy way to perform this operation? Do I need a specialized piece of software or can I use some Windows utility for this?

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