Hi to everyone,

I have a windows server 2008 with 3 hard drivers Raid 5 and i 'd like to upgrade with 3 larger hard drivers.The server has place for 3 more hard drivers.I am not sure about the procedure.That i am thinking is to install the 3 new hard drivers and make them Raid5. Then, backup the old hard drivers and restore them to the new ones.Change the bios settings in order to boot from the new ones.Is my procedure right?i am missing something?What kind of program can i use for the backup and the restore,acronis, norton ghost are doing this job?

Many thanks in advance
Panos

If your RAID is up and running, for file copying, you can use something very simple, such as the robocopy utility for example.

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Back up everything from the raid now to an external drive. Verify you got it ALL.... pull the three drives, put them someplace safe. Install the three new hard drives. Create new Raid 5. Copy the data back

That is the safest method.

thats good!!

If you have the time I like walking new drives in: naturally you should always have a backup- image preferred. I simple remove a good drive- replace with new drive and let system rebuild array. Repeat when done for each. On completion I use a utility to change the partition size to use full drive size. I have found some servers sensitive to which drives are the boot drives- and not wanting to delete old array information is safest. Should there be an issue my backup image can be used and I simply put new 3 drives in system and restore array expanded into new drives. Works for me.

You can do this as warnerr sais, but take sure you have a BackUp copy of all data. because this process can fail while rebuiding, in that case you will lose data.

Important!
Make a BackUp and verify it before start rebulding RAID.!

Goog Luck