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Re: Move a SL6 server from md software raid 5 to hardware raid 5
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Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]>
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Nico Kadel-Garcia <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:04:03 -0500
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On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Jason Bronner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Felip.
>
> always always always: back up the array. create the new array. move the old
> array to the new array. destroy the old array.

Amen. Also, in making the backup, consider using "star" if you use
SELinux. rsync and normal tar do not preserve SELinux attributes.

It is a good time to consider your backup policy. RAID is *not*
backup, and the white paper from Google at
http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrusted_dlcp/research.google.com/en/us/archive/disk_failures.pdf

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