From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 23 00:02:19 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4938116A4C8 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:02:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6A0945065 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:40:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 8so588823nzo for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:40:18 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=gSXk7upj/l1NOEHZoE2IgX4VdIMfZJcY1LegwI8gvfcYLR05o3hTc5e/T/fOxxBG5EjrXSS3C3eKOJvfImxc658F6U0Zw7bnsgq5A1Yquyz3HeZxrhoQtAwgET41+QWlnsBapBIF/m72yg2Ow/msGVNK945395916T+d5DUQqLc= Received: by 10.36.250.75 with SMTP id x75mr2848253nzh; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:40:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.182.7 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:40:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:40:18 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "HighPoint Support" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Cloning Drives from a RAID Array? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:02:19 -0000 If I clone a drive and then put the new cloned drive into the array will the array continue working without a rebuild? ---------------- 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? --------------- 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 -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/