<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> (2010年08月19日 22:36), justino garcia wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:AANLkTikhjGt4OXOEmQr6Y3JromyBFs791HDpEKrYFdcy@mail.gmail.com" type="cite">Why not use acronis for linux, or some imaging tool, but make sure your current linux install has support for said raid card. <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Rashkae <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ubuntu@tigershaunt.com">ubuntu@tigershaunt.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">Mike A. Leonetti 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. > </div> There is going to be one hurdle you'll need to get over.. I forget the exact command I used to recover, but I'll give you the overview. When raid array's are created, they are given a "hostname", which, by default, will by the system hostname. By default, mdadm will not auto-assemble raid arrays from a different hostname (to prevent misunderstandings when hard drives are moved between different systems.) Unfortunately, Ubuntu must assemble the raid arrays from the Initrd system, which will probably not contain your hostname unless you have customized it. I encountered this problem when I created the new array from the existing system, I do not know if you will have this issue when creating the array from the rescue cd. When I tried to reboot the system, it was unable to mount the root filesystem. However, initrd dropped me to a busybox shell, from which I was able to run mdadm with options that would assemble the correct array *and* update the hostname of the array, (which I think is simply "", ie. empty, in initrd.) <div> <div class="h5"> -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> -- Justin IT-TECH </blockquote> To be honest I don't necessarily trust third party tools. And I'm doing this all on-site so if it's something that fails that means I'll just have to be there for longer. </body> </html>