Add a drive to svr 2003 to create a mirror

[fiza]

I have an old Cachepilot box (see pic) which is currently running Server 2003 on a single disk. We are using this as a sort of media drive (all videos, photos etc go on it). Currently it has a 1TB drive in it.

 

I have purchased 2 x 2TB drives that I would like to use instead in a mirror configuration.

 

Is it possible to put one of the new drives in the Cachepilot and create a mirror (using SVR 2003 RAID). This will hopefully copy all data to new drive as a mirror of the original.

Can I then take out the original drive and put in the other new drive? Will the 2TB drive I originally added then build this drive into the mirror?

 

I hope that makes sense!

 

Or am i better off copying all Media files off and then rebuilding the server using the new 2TB drives and then copying the media back?

[sted]

might be easier to use cloning software like ghost/fog/ping and just clone from the 1tb drive to the new array as i suspect adding the 2tb drive to a miror will wipe it iirc most controllers do

[36Degrees]

AFAIK you can only create a mirror with a drive of equal size so using a 2TB to mirror a 1TB wouldn't work. I'm not 100% sure though as I've only ever tried mirroring with identical drives.

[plexer]

Install 2tb drive and create a partition to match first drive, mirror drive 1 to drive 2.

 

Remove drive 1 and break mirror, expand drive to fill drive.

 

Add 2nd 2tb drive and mirror?

 

Not saying it'll work.

 

Ben

[fiza]

might be easier to use cloning software like ghost/fog/ping and just clone from the 1tb drive to the new array as i suspect adding the 2tb drive to a miror will wipe it iirc most controllers do

 

Sounds like a plan - hadnt thought of that.