justleen
February 20th, 2008, 05:58 AM
So, i have a Blade somewhere in our datacentre.
The blade comes with two internal disks in a RAID1 configuration. The OS (a default image from our sofware engineers) is installed through altiris on the local disks.
After everything is up and running, I get a SAN disk allocated by the storage guys.
Now here is the thing: the SAN disk are backed up, the local disks are not (we dont want to backup over LAN, only over fibre).
Now its already pretty failsafe being a RAID1 config, but i'd like to have more security, by moving everything to the SAN disk, so its on a RAID5 AND is backed up.
how would i go about moving my /boot to the SAN disk? (the rest of the partition are pretty straight forward, i think)
can i create a 100MB boot part on the san, copy /boot to it, and add an entry in the menu.lst?
The blade comes with two internal disks in a RAID1 configuration. The OS (a default image from our sofware engineers) is installed through altiris on the local disks.
After everything is up and running, I get a SAN disk allocated by the storage guys.
Now here is the thing: the SAN disk are backed up, the local disks are not (we dont want to backup over LAN, only over fibre).
Now its already pretty failsafe being a RAID1 config, but i'd like to have more security, by moving everything to the SAN disk, so its on a RAID5 AND is backed up.
how would i go about moving my /boot to the SAN disk? (the rest of the partition are pretty straight forward, i think)
can i create a 100MB boot part on the san, copy /boot to it, and add an entry in the menu.lst?