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From: ktharms on 18 Mar 2007 20:56
Hello all,

I recently purchased 3 new hotswap drives to replace some smaller
hotswap drives that are used in a RAID5 Array. I need to find a way
to move this data off the RAID5 Array and then install and setup the
new drives and move the data back. Is there a way of doing this that
is easy and straightforward. Thanks.

From: Big Chief on 18 Mar 2007 21:00
Forgot to mention, this is also my DHCP server and print server.
Thanks


On Mar 18, 7:56 pm, ktha...(a)gmail.com wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I recently purchased 3 new hotswap drives to replace some smaller
> hotswap drives that are used in a RAID5 Array. I need to find a way
> to move this data off the RAID5 Array and then install and setup the
> new drives and move the data back. Is there a way of doing this that
> is easy and straightforward. Thanks.


From: Dooby on 19 Mar 2007 08:28
I assume you take regular backups of the server. The easiest way I can
imagine would be to take a full backup, and restore it to the newly installed
drives.

Regards,
Shaun

"Big Chief" wrote:

> Forgot to mention, this is also my DHCP server and print server.
> Thanks
>
>
> On Mar 18, 7:56 pm, ktha...(a)gmail.com wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I recently purchased 3 new hotswap drives to replace some smaller
> > hotswap drives that are used in a RAID5 Array. I need to find a way
> > to move this data off the RAID5 Array and then install and setup the
> > new drives and move the data back. Is there a way of doing this that
> > is easy and straightforward. Thanks.
>
>
>
From: timlanders on 19 Mar 2007 13:22
Why not replace one drive, rebuild, replace second drive, rebuild,
third drive, rebuild, then use the RAID manager to expand the RAID
using the additiona space. What hardware and/or software are you using
for RAID 5 (Dell Perc, Adaptec, Windows 2003, etc)?

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