Best way to turn RAID 0 into a RAID 1
We have a client who purchased a server from another provider and they set up a raid 0 array and a raid 5 array, installed the OS on the raid 0 array, there are no more availiable drive bays and we want to move the OS onto a raid 1 array to offer some redundancy, there is no performance need for the raid 0.
We were thinking of shrinking the partition using partition magic or similar then imaging the partition, wiping the raid 0 array turning it into a raid 1 array and putting our image on to the new raid 1 partition.
Any easier? Safer way to do this?
We were thinking of shrinking the partition using partition magic or similar then imaging the partition, wiping the raid 0 array turning it into a raid 1 array and putting our image on to the new raid 1 partition.
Any easier? Safer way to do this?
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Its not a small system, and is a fresh domain only around a year old.
The only other option I was thinking was creating a partition on the raid 5 array somehow (it has plenty of space), moving the OS partition on to that then moving it back.
The only other option I was thinking was creating a partition on the raid 5 array somehow (it has plenty of space), moving the OS partition on to that then moving it back.
If it is domain then by your method you will have risk in doing inter partition movement and is not recommedned also. Best option is backup or ghost image.
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2) Use ghost utility and take a complete image of OS disk and restore it after raid 1 configuration.