Temporally putting the drive in an inexpensive usb enclosure would
save you quite a bit of time.  If you are going to use RAID1, you can
create the RAID in a degraded manner, copy the data onto the drive,
then install the drive and add in the other drive to the array it in
the computer.

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Alan McKay <alan.mckay AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> Hmmm, looks like there are lots of options - but the big thing for me
> is that I'll have to do this in steps since my box only has 2 SATA
> ports and they are currently occupied.
>
> So I'll have to :
> - copy everything out to another drive / box
> - install new drives, install OS, install BackupPC
> - copy everything back in.
>
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