RE: [cobalt-users] backup methods

["William J.A. Brillinger" <billy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Today I visited my co-lo office for 45 minutes. During which time I 
answered a number of question regarding the raq4's handling of new hard 
drives and creating a complete backup.

First step was to setup my desktop pc which I had brought with me. It has 2 
IDE Mobile Rack Pullout bays in it - both on the Master IDE Channels

Second, I powered down my Raq4, disconnected it, opened the cover and 
removed the 10gb Seagate IDE drive.

I placed the Seagate into my desktop and used Powerquest Drivecopy to 
duplicate the Seagate to a new Maxtor 10gb drive. (17 minutes sector by 
sector) I ignored all of the warnings given by the software as it copied - 
something about 0 byte not set? and no active partition.

Finally I placed the Maxtor Drive into my Raq closed it up and powered up.

The machine rebooted and appears to be running perfectly.

I have also noticed it is running about 3 degrees cooler, 28 instead of 31 
degrees.

The Maxtor and Seagate drives are both 5400 rpm drives although the Maxtor 
has a slightly faster seek time.

20 minutes of downtime and I now have a verified offsite backup of my Raq 
which can be booted immediately at a later date without having to restore 
the system. (Yay!)

If my mainboard supported ATA-100 in dos mode, the backup would have taken 
less than 6 minutes.

Cheers!
- Bill B.

At 02:24 PM 10/09/01 -0700, you wrote:
> Definitely I have posted this ? a couple times, would love to know how
> people are backing up the whole drive,.
> plus
> is it possible to do it remotely or do I have to plug a machine in the back
> of it or something.
>
> Thanks!


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William J.A. Brillinger
Precision Design Co./Promotex Online

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