I have a MacPro (Leopard) with Qty 2 internal SATA, 250GB Journaled HFS disks. The 1st disk has the bootable OS, Parallels (XP, Vista, Solaris), MacOffice 2004 and a bunch of layerd applications. The 2nd disk has my iTunes and a few other directories.
I back up my 1st disk and 2nd disk via Time Machine to an external 500 GB LaCie firewire attached disk.
I just purchased 4 1 TB Seagate SATA drives (7200 RPM 32 MB Cache NCQ). I want to install these drives as a RAID 5 config (hopefully best performance and storage balance) that should net me ~3 TB space.
What is the best method to backup all the data on the 2 250 GB drives and then restore it to the new RAID?
Also how do I create the new RAID after I install the 4 new disks in the MacPro. I'm assuming I will need to boot from the Leopard CD and format the disks and then create the RAID before I can reload the OS and all of my files?
Any recomendations and options would be appreciated.
TIA,
Al
I back up my 1st disk and 2nd disk via Time Machine to an external 500 GB LaCie firewire attached disk.
I just purchased 4 1 TB Seagate SATA drives (7200 RPM 32 MB Cache NCQ). I want to install these drives as a RAID 5 config (hopefully best performance and storage balance) that should net me ~3 TB space.
What is the best method to backup all the data on the 2 250 GB drives and then restore it to the new RAID?
Also how do I create the new RAID after I install the 4 new disks in the MacPro. I'm assuming I will need to boot from the Leopard CD and format the disks and then create the RAID before I can reload the OS and all of my files?
Any recomendations and options would be appreciated.
TIA,
Al