Re: [artshow_photo] Re: Faster way to clone one TB drive?

It's easy enough to test, just pull one of the drives from the mirror
and plug it into another machine and see if the filesystem is properly
recognized. It's been a long time since I've run into a mirror that
wouldn't work this way, and that includes a couple of Linux flavors,
Windows Server versions, and motherboard RAID functions. Don't count on
recreating a RAID 5 array without having the same OS and the same
controller, but mirrors seems to all just be two copies of a standard disk.

Van

On 28/11/2010 12:09 PM, James Dunn wrote:
>
> I went another way. I took an older
> (Athlon 64 2800) computer and installed
> 2 - 1 and half gig sata drives on it and
> Ubuntu Linux. I configured Raid 1 Disk mirroring.
> I then transfered 800 gig via network neighborhood
> via ethernet. It took two nights. Half one night and
> half the other.
>
> Now I'm thinking that I can pull one of the mirror drives
> and take it off site. Then replace that drive and
> tell the Raid software to rebuild the new one. The Linux
> RAID mirroring does not use any special
> file format or compression. It is just ext4 which
> is a standard Linux format so the off site drive
> should be easy to mount and read.
> I'll have to test this in Dec.
>

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