OT: Cloning Linux Server with RAID

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

Yea I thought about that - just didn't know if that was the wisest approach
My brain has a hard time removing things out of a working system haha
It's a thought though......

I do know in what I've read that you can pass a parameter to Clonezilla
with the dmraid flag - just wondered if anyone has had success with it or
not.....


On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 12:18 PM, Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at spamcop.net> wrote:

> On 3/2/2016 10:53 AM, scooter6--- via Filepro-list wrote:
>
>> Good morning all
>>
>> I'm going to be building a backup server that is kept offsite
>> I have exact matching Dell PowerEdge servers - our production system has 4
>> HDD total and the backup will have the same
>> Production server has two RAID 1 mirrors - one for OS and one for /u data
>>
>> I've been reading about Clonezilla and the 'manual' work around that
>> appears to work for RAID  cloning
>>
>> Has anyone done this type thing and would you provide any pointers on how
>> you accomplished it.
>> Both have Dell tape backups and we backup daily so I'm covered there
>> Weekly my plan is to restore backup tape from production server to the off
>> site server to keep things parallel.....
>>
>
> I've used Clonezilla many times, but not on a RAID system.
>
> My question is: if it's a hardware RAID, does it matter?  Doesn't the
> hardware hide the details, making it look like a single drive?
>
> On the other hand, RAID 1 is just mirroring, correct?  Couldn't you, in
> theory, take one drive out of the old system, replacing it with a new blank
> drive, rebuild the RAID, and the original system is back where it was, and
> then take the removed drive to the new computer, and use it to "rebuild"
> the RAID, ending up with a clone on the new box?
>
> --
> Kenneth Brody
>
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