[cobalt-users] "Failsafe" full restore procedure

["Goade, Matthew" <mgoade@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello.
I have an inherited RaQ4r. Before my time, the factory OSRCD was used on it. It failed to recognize the _factory_ 40GB HDDs for whatever reason. (Sun says "bad" OSRCD, but finger pointing is no longer relevant.) The RaQ believes them to be 5.6GB. I have the task of moving approx 200 email users to this box, and require the disk space.
As I have never restored a Cobalt before, I wish to take every precaution. Please point out any mistakes in my plan, or suggestions!
I will remove the primary RAID HDD, insert a blank identical, allow RAID to rebuild. I will keep the original safe, incase I fail to restore full functionality I can go back to the beginning by wiping the secondary and reinserting the original primary. Then I'll use raqbackup.sh to do a full cmuExport, then mysqldump, then a GUI backup also. Upon successful OSRCD, and returning to the current patch-level, I hope to run cmuImport and restore the mysql databases and be right back where I was. Only with all my disk space this time.

Notes: cfdisk reports the unused space as unusable. I cannot(to my knowledge) make a partition out of it. 
I do not have sufficient space on / to tar /home onto it in order to resize /home.  

Matthew Goade
ISP Administrator
A+, Network+, Linux+, Unix Technician
Networks, Inc.
506 W. Battlefield
Springfield, MO
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