Player0
12th December 2001, 06:06 PM
Hi,
Im hoping someone can help point me in the right direction. I have a FreeBSD based WWW server here at work, which we use as a backup server. Our main sites are hosted in California, but we have this little one here on our T1 in NY in case...CA falls in to the ocean or something.
Anyway, we just purchased a new IBM Web server which the guys in CA host for us, because we needed more power for our sites. We've come to realize that this old K6-2 300mhz WWW server here wouldn't come close to working as a backup server in case of an emergency. So, we want to upgrade this machine, but on the cheap.
So I thought KG7-RAID. It is one, if not THE, most stable motherboards around these days, especially non-overclocked. I've had lots of luck with KT7(A) based servers in the past, so this is a good solution for me. I figgure, get a fairly moderate CPU, lots of ram and a SHOOT load of fast hard drive. IDE Raid is wonderful and fits the budget perfectly.
Currently, the machine sports an SCSI-2 controller and hard drive. I havent looked at what specifically it is, but since this is an older machine, I dont think its anything spectacular. Now, there is alot of tricky configuration and months of programming invested in to this machine. It receives nightly backups of well over 40 websites and stores them all, and...its finally working well. REDOING the configuration from scratch is not an option.
The easiest thing to do is just move the SCSI-2 drive in to the new machine. Which, if worse comes to worse, I will do. However, I know that IDE ATA100 RAID would easily perform TWICE as well as that old SCSI thing. A little more CPU load, but I have more than enough CPU to worry about that.
So, to make a long story short, I need to make an EXACT copy of the SCSI drive to the IDE RAID array. Remember, this is FreeBSD, so whatever drive copier utility has to beable to support those formats. I'm not sure if the drive is HFS or Fat16 or some other format. Some type of RAW copy has to occur tho, and im entirely concerned about the boot sector, and preserving things like file-links.
Any thoughts suggestions? Thanks guys!
Im hoping someone can help point me in the right direction. I have a FreeBSD based WWW server here at work, which we use as a backup server. Our main sites are hosted in California, but we have this little one here on our T1 in NY in case...CA falls in to the ocean or something.
Anyway, we just purchased a new IBM Web server which the guys in CA host for us, because we needed more power for our sites. We've come to realize that this old K6-2 300mhz WWW server here wouldn't come close to working as a backup server in case of an emergency. So, we want to upgrade this machine, but on the cheap.
So I thought KG7-RAID. It is one, if not THE, most stable motherboards around these days, especially non-overclocked. I've had lots of luck with KT7(A) based servers in the past, so this is a good solution for me. I figgure, get a fairly moderate CPU, lots of ram and a SHOOT load of fast hard drive. IDE Raid is wonderful and fits the budget perfectly.
Currently, the machine sports an SCSI-2 controller and hard drive. I havent looked at what specifically it is, but since this is an older machine, I dont think its anything spectacular. Now, there is alot of tricky configuration and months of programming invested in to this machine. It receives nightly backups of well over 40 websites and stores them all, and...its finally working well. REDOING the configuration from scratch is not an option.
The easiest thing to do is just move the SCSI-2 drive in to the new machine. Which, if worse comes to worse, I will do. However, I know that IDE ATA100 RAID would easily perform TWICE as well as that old SCSI thing. A little more CPU load, but I have more than enough CPU to worry about that.
So, to make a long story short, I need to make an EXACT copy of the SCSI drive to the IDE RAID array. Remember, this is FreeBSD, so whatever drive copier utility has to beable to support those formats. I'm not sure if the drive is HFS or Fat16 or some other format. Some type of RAW copy has to occur tho, and im entirely concerned about the boot sector, and preserving things like file-links.
Any thoughts suggestions? Thanks guys!