"Warren" <warren RemoveThis @rsvpcare.com> wrote in message
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> My Webserver at work is in need of updating. Currently it runs two
> Raids, a mirror for data and a raid 5 for OS, hotswappable. The raid
> is all IDE, using a promise raid controller and samsung ide hard
> drives (60 gig drives).
> I want to move to sata with as little downtime as possible.
What operating system?
> Can I do this:
>
> 1. remove current OS HD's
> 2. put in sata drives and format raid with the existing controller
You mean with a new controller, I assume.
> 3. take one of my ide drives with the OS data on it and ghost it onto
> the new scsi raid
> 4. copy all the data from the mirror drives to a sata mirror setup
That should work. Just make sure you install the new RAID card in the
old machine (and get it working with drivers and everything) before you
ghost.
> Is there a better way to do this without building a second server? I
> don't want to reinstall windows and all the apps that we run... could
> this work? If it doesn't I can just put everything back how it was.
That's how I did it, except I didn't use ghost, I used a similar tool.
It was either Casper or Paragon Drive Backup.
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