From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 11 11:38:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96CF016A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:38:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from swisseasy.net (zuerich132.swisseasy.net [80.74.132.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C388543D1F for ; Thu, 11 Dec 2003 11:38:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from arie@gerszt.ch) Received: (qmail 72369 invoked by uid 2520); 11 Dec 2003 19:38:36 -0000 Received: from arie@gerszt.ch by atlas.swisseasy.net by uid 89 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (clamscan: 0.60. spamassassin: 2.55. Clear:. Processed in 0.481889 secs); 11 Dec 2003 19:38:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO DELLARIE) (arie@gerszt.ch@212.41.70.53) by zuerich132.swisseasy.net with SMTP; 11 Dec 2003 19:38:36 -0000 From: "Arie J. Gerszt" To: Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 20:39:28 +0100 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: disk error / failure: need help! (smart failure predicted) X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 19:38:39 -0000 hi all, in one of our servers we have a disk where the bios reports failure predicted (SMART) unfortunately this happens to be our start volume (ad0) which has several slices/partitions. At the moment the disk works (still). What is the easiest way to copy everything from this disk to another new one (including boot mgmr, mbr) the system has in total 3 disks, but only the first (the broken one) is bootable. thanks, arie