Hi, Fred, On 2019-02-11 10:04, Fred Smith wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm a "nervous nellie", I have not yet updated my 7.5 desktop to 7.6 > because (1) it has an Nvidia card, and (2) I've heard of problems > upgrading on top of software RAID (using RAID1 with 2 drives). > > I need to upgrade it to stay secure, and I want to do a bare-metal > backup > first (so I can put it all back as it now is, in case it explodes in my > face), so I'm trying to figure out the safest way to do that. Here are > the choices as I see them, I'd appreciate comments/thoughts: > > 1. boot from live DVD and manually reassemble the RAID array (how > would I do that?) > 2. degrade the array (with appropriate commands) so that it is running > on just one drive, then boot a live DVD and use dd to back up that > drive. > 3. Other choices you can suggest? > > then after successfully getting a bare-metal backup, reboot it with the > full RAID array and run the update. > > Thanks in advance! I've been a big fan of Mondo Rescue. http://www.mondorescue.org/ -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org "It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1