want to replace the exsiting HDD

[avdhar]

HOW TO CHANGE THE EXISTING WORKING HDD WITH NEW ONE ( SCO 5.0 )
MY SYSTEM IS WITH ONLY ONE HDD AND ALL VOLUMES ARE MOUNTED ON THIS ONLY.
I WANT MIRROR OF IT ON THE NEW HDD WITHOUT USING VDISK

CAN ANY ONE SUGGEST ( WITH USING FULL BACKUP AND RESTORING OPTIONS)
THANX
AVDHAR

 

[edfair]

Lone-tar or backup-edge, create the emergency boot disks and the backup, unplug old, plug in new, and run the restore. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com

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[patw]

As Ed suggested, replicate the existing disk using Edge or Lone-tar.

Are you asking about RAID also?

If you're ruling out software raid (Veritas, 1776 etc) then you need to get a SCSI RAID card, 2 identical hard disks (mirror only) or at least 3 hard disks (RAID 5, 10).

 

[Megabitman]

I've had good luck with Drive Copy (a $20.00 program available at the local wannabe computer stores). It won't resize the partition but it will allow you to image the drive. Then, if you want to run RAID 1 (mirroring) with IDE drives, there is a hardware based solution by ARCO that writes to two drives at the same time. Fairly inexpensive solution without a great deal of effort.