Re: [cobalt-users] Backup of RaQ4R

[Bruce Timberlake <bruce.timberlake@xxxxxxx>]

Richard Sidlin wrote:
> 
> For safety sake, is it considered advisable to take a copy of the hard
> drive just in case something bad goes wrong that it replicated onto the
> second mirrored disk? If so, is it simply a case of whipping out the
> secondary drive and replacing it with an unformatted drive? Will it
> automatically setup the RAID or do I need to do something else?

Yes, if you remove one of the two drives from a RaQ 4r, and replace it
with a clean disk of the same size/characteristics, the server will
automatically mirror the content from the "full" drive to the new empty
drive for you once you power the server back on.

FYI, the "master" drive (primary IDE channel) is on the right side of
the RaQ as you look at it from the front.  In theory it shouldn't matter
which drive you pull, but if it was me, I'd remove the "secondary" drive
(secondary IDE channel, drive on the left side) and continue booting
from the "master" drive...

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Bruce Timberlake, Sun Cobalt Technology Engineer
Email: bruce.timberlake@xxxxxxx