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Jonathan Rioux
Asked: 2013-03-13 05:22:06 +0800 CST

PERC - Create RAID1 from single drive without losing data

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I have a PowerEdge 2950. I have one 1TB drive with critical data on it that has been running alone for months, and I want to add a second 1TB drive and make a RAID1 out of these 2 drives, but without losing the data on the first 1TB drive.

From PERC, is this something that can be done without having to make a complete backup of the data and restore it into the new RAID1 drive?

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1 Answers

  1. what you trying to do is possible... but more in a real hackish way.

    but in my opinion:

    • make a downtime
    • backup the data from RAID1
    • rebuild the new RAID1
    • restore the data from the Backup you made

    http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/dell-perc6-extend.html

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