Cloning Drives from a RAID Array?

Nikolas Britton nikolas.britton at gmail.com
Fri Jun 23 00:02:19 UTC 2006


If I clone a drive and then put the new cloned drive into the array
will the array continue working without a rebuild?
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1. Shutdown server/array.
2. Pull drive to be cloned from array.
3. Clone drive using another computer with: 'dd if=/dev/disk1
of=/dev/disk2 bs=8m'.
4. Insert new cloned drive into array.
5. Power Up server/array.
5. ???
6. Profit!

Will this work?
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Controller = HighPoint 2220
Disk1 = Maxtor MaxLine III 7L250SO
DISK2 = Maxtor MaxLine III 7L300SO

HighPoint CLI> query arrays 1
ID      Capacity(GB) MaxFree      TotalFree   Type     Model Number
1/1     250.920      0.000        0.000       RAID5     Maxtor 7L250S0
1/2     299.977      49.057       49.057      RAID5     Maxtor 7L300S0
1/3     250.920      0.000        0.000       RAID5     Maxtor 7L250S0
1/4     250.920      0.000        0.000       RAID5     Maxtor 7L250S0
1/5     299.977      49.057       49.057      RAID5     Maxtor 7L300S0
1/6     299.977      49.057       49.057      RAID5     Maxtor 7L300S0
1/7     299.977      49.057       49.057      RAID5     Maxtor 7L300S0
1/8     299.977      49.057       49.057      RAID5     Maxtor 7L300S0


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