dnk wrote:
>
>
> But back onto topic, I suspect (but have not tested or done) one  
> could just clone the drive to an external source... modify the raid  
> configuration, rebuild the raid and assuming partitions are the same  
> size (and same hardware), just clone it back?
>
> That is a first thought without having actually done it myself, or  
> having really investigating it. My rather vague answer is mostly due  
> to the fact I just started playing with backuppc about a month ago,  
> and have not even put it into production (just at the testing phase  
> in VM's).
>
> d
>
>

Partitions won' have the same size.
The system on my 3 year old Poweredge 2950 right now is Mandriva but  
all other servers are CentOS.  So I want to use CentOS on that server  
too.
There are 6 disks in the server: 2x250-2x250-2x500, which is good for  
1TB of data.  All 250GB will be replaced by 500GB, raid5.  That way I  
will have 2,5TB disk space.  I have an external 1TB USB drive where I  
can move all important data to it, put a new system on it and restore  
BackupPC.  No idea if BackupPC will recognize all previous backups.

-- 
Diederik


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