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Sun Feb 18 03:30:13 UTC 2007
Edward Milstein <eddiem5 at yahoo.com>

Hello,

I would like to replace one of the disks in a raid 1 array (software  
raid) in centos 4.4 for the purpose of saving the removed drive as a  
backup of the system.  Replace it with a new disk and have the raod  
resync.  That way the removed disk can be used to restore the system  
to that point in time if something dramatic occured.

I have a number of questions, I can’t find the answers to and I don't  
have a system I can play with to see how the software behaves:

1) Do I need to partition the replacement drive or will the system do  
it after reboot?

2) Should I break the raid before replacement or just shutdown,  
replace and reboot?

3) I have also read that acronis 10 rescue CD can be booted and take  
a system image that way but I have not tried that yet..

In general, are these approaches a good idea for generating an  
offsite image backup??

Any help or input would be appreciated.

Thank you,

-ed-
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