Re: cloning RAIDframe config

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, 2 May 2018, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> I have two identical servers, each with two identical disks, front-panel 
> swappable. One now has a working RAID-1 setup, fully populated.  Can I 
> clone it on the other machine by disk-swapping and reconstructing (with 
> the first machine cleanly shutdown, obvously)?  The only difference I 
> need on the two are quick changes in /etc.

Yes, but if you want them to be bootable, you probably want to ensure the 
MBR, etc. is correct.

My usual method is to simply use dd to copy the first sector or so (means 
you don't need to create the disklabel, etc.) from the master disk 
to the new one before doing a raidctl -a and a raidctl -F componentX

--
Stephen