Re: [cobalt-users] "Failsafe" full restore procedure

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

At 11:14 AM 25/07/02 -0500, you wrote:
> 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

If you have physical access to the machine, use Norton Ghost on the drive 
to resize the partitions as you like. You will have to do this with a 
normal pc.

- Bill




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