Hi, On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 11:06 PM, James A. Peltier <jpeltier at sfu.ca> wrote: > > > Why didn't you just remove the disk from server A and perform a dd of > server B's disk onto the sdb disk that was in server A? Then you don't > have to do anything as the disks are exact replica of each other. > Thank you for your suggestion. I did not do it the way you suggested for three reasons: 1) server B is a production server and I wanted to avoid as much downtime as possible 2) server B is running with SAS drives and server A is running with SATA drives 3) I want to create a way to mirror the server B system to another hard drive not just this one time but periodically also in the future in automatized way Regards, Peter