Moving a server over to a RAID

[Luis Paulo]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Mike A. Leonetti
<mikealeonetti at gmail.com> wrote:
>  I have a server now that has one drive and is not set up on a RAID
> using Ubuntu 8.04.
>
> What I was going to do was boot with a Linux recovery disc, create a
> RAID1 manually with mdadm on two new drives, and then copy all of the
> data onto that then redo the boot partition.
>
> My question is, when I reboot, will Ubuntu automatically detect the RAID
> for me or are there modules I have to install ahead of time to make sure
> the RAID gets detected? Also, would anybody else handle the situation
> differently :D.
>
> --
> Mike A. Leonetti

Hi, Mike

Would it be easy to install 8.04 - ot take the change to install Lucid
- from a normal install cd on the new 2 disks, creating partitions and
raids (maybe lvm too) using the install process?

You will end up having 2 working systems you can boot from, copying
what you need from the old to the new would be easy, I think.

I have use a similar process to update machines, but not to create an
"exact" copy, as I understood you want to.

Am I missing something?

Regards
Luis