[SOLVED] RAID a drive already containing data

miragej · 08-13-2010, 07:50 AM

Hey guys, I currently have a 1.5TB sata drive connected to my system, with data already on it. In the next few days I am planning to use mdadm to create a raid5 array with another 2 1.5TB drives along with the one I already have.

Is it possible to create the raid without losing the data on my current hard drive?

Obviously it will be backed up before hand just in case, but it would be nice not to have to restore nearly a TB of data after raid'ing the drives.

Thanks for any help,
Josh

HasC · 08-13-2010, 08:11 AM

yes, it's posible. read this and this.

I used it to create some raid-1 arrays, but surely it can be applied on your situation too

miragej · 08-13-2010, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by HasC

yes, it's posible. read this and this.

I used it to create some raid-1 arrays, but surely it can be applied on your situation too

Excellent, thanks a lot for your help.