So practically speaking I don't have hardly any experience managing RAID volumes. I have used some LSI web bios's to create RAID volumes of various forms for functional dev/test and am familiar enough with the terminology and implementation but when left with the choice of building my own home NAS or buying some proprietary piece of hardware pre-configured I chose the later in the interest of time and money. Perhaps I made a poor choice there as my proprietary hardware died and has left me with a seemingly intact RAID 5 volume spanned over 4 500GB PATA disks. Seeing as how the hardware is bricked I am going to attempt to pull out those disks and configure a RAID5 volume on a custom built machine, (something I constructed over 5 years ago.. it still as PATA interfaces :D ). The goal here is to copy the contents of this volume to an alternate server that I will be using for backups with some more updated hardware. Anyhow, the point of my post: Is it really as simple as it sounds? Use mdadm to recreate the RAID5 volume and away I go? Are there any details that one can offer that I may need to be aware of or is simply reading the man pages and various HOWTO's out on the net enough to get started? Obviously I am taking this slow as the data on the disks is important to me. Thanks for your time in advance! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
