Over the weekend I tried to clone our OS SCSI array to a larger array for some more space on the drive. (Dell power edge 2900)
I used clonezilla as it has worked quite nicely on PC's and such with no trouble, I've done very similar clones. From one partition to a larger partition (expanding it).
Here is what I did:
Installed the new 174GB hdd’s paired them into RAID-1 (mirror)
Formatted array and booted to Clonezilla and attempted to clone the OS partition, the operation started and finished within a few seconds.
Booted back to ‘SBS’ Clonezilla had created some odd partitions.
Re-formatted and tried process again. Same result.
Re-formatted and cloned disk to disk setting the partitions to expand to the full size of the disk.
This seemed to work, booted to ‘SBS’ and checked that data had been correctly copied, all seemed to be well.
Turned off the Server, removed the old OS disks and booted, had to delete the RAID cache first.
Booted from the new drives, and failed to load anything from windows, tried to do a repair and it couldn’t locate any of the files.
Replaced the old OS disks, and the 1TB drives and re-booted to ‘SBS’
I was cloning Partition-to-partition and expanding the partition size to the full size of the new array.
Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
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Over the weekend I tried to clone our OS SCSI array to a larger array for some more space on the drive. (Dell power edge 2900)
I used clonezilla as it has worked quite nicely on PC's and such with no trouble, I've done very similar clones. From one partition to a larger partition (expanding it).
Here is what I did:
Installed the new 174GB hdd’s paired them into RAID-1 (mirror)
Formatted array and booted to Clonezilla and attempted to clone the OS partition, the operation started and finished within a few seconds.
Booted back to ‘SBS’ Clonezilla had created some odd partitions.
Re-formatted and tried process again. Same result.
Re-formatted and cloned disk to disk setting the partitions to expand to the full size of the disk.
This seemed to work, booted to ‘SBS’ and checked that data had been correctly copied, all seemed to be well.
Turned off the Server, removed the old OS disks and booted, had to delete the RAID cache first.
Booted from the new drives, and failed to load anything from windows, tried to do a repair and it couldn’t locate any of the files.
Replaced the old OS disks, and the 1TB drives and re-booted to ‘SBS’
I was cloning Partition-to-partition and expanding the partition size to the full size of the new array.
Any ideas where I'm going wrong?