Re: Migrating to Raid



Buck Rogers wrote:

<snip>

> Hello
>
> As promised, I'm reporting back on my final results for anyone who
> might find this helpful.
>
> I was able to eventually move SUSE, SBS, XP, and all Data to the new
> drives by using Ghost 9.0. I made sure to run each OS prior to
> ghosting to recognize and load the 3Ware drivers. NOTE: Ghost 2003
> saw all drives but didn't work...tons of read/write errors.
>
> Also, for some reason doing a disk copy didn't work. Only a restore
> of an image worked properly. I Ghosted everything to an external HD.
>
> I can't address FC4 yet. I have a tar backup but haven't restored to
> the new environment. Shouldn't be a problem.
>
> Seems easy when typed, but took many days of toil to get it right.
> Suprisingly the hardest part was maintaing the proper drive
> designation in each environment after a restore. That's a story in
> itself.
>
> I've not noticed any transfer speed problems with the 3ware
> controller, yet. Still to early. I hope to check it out after I'm
> done with the Fedora restore.
>
> Regards,
>
> Buck


Glad you got it all sorted out.

Dave
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