Re: [cobalt-users] cloning raq550

[John D Gorena <Support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gerald Waugh wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, John D Gorena wrote:
> 
> > It's more than just replacing a hardrive.  You must be sure that the new hard
> > drive is cleaned completely and the partitions are removed.  Otherwise it may
> > restore the data that was there.
> 
> Good point! Sonetimes RaQs (the 4r also) take off on their own and use
> the wrong hard drive, really screwing things up! But I thought he said he
> would use 'new' hard drive, which should be OK.
> 
> Gerald

Yes it should be OK.  I switch hard drives on Raq550s as an easy snapshot of the
system.  I do this all the time and clean the drive by putting it in a PC as a
single drive and I
 - fdisk - and delete all the partitions if any
 - fdisk and set as a dos partition
 - format
 - Fdisk /mbr
 - fdisk - and delete all the partitions if any

Turn the system off and switch drives.
Turn it on.

I do all the cleaning as stated above because the Raq550 will create the
partitions by setting start/stop sectors.  If the Data is still there, it
restores to that drive.

Now if I can get a backup system that really works and restores completly.....

John