Hi everyone,
I'm looking to replace my primary drive in a live cPanel-based server with a new, larger drive. I'm trying to figure out how to do this with the absolute minimum downtime possible. Can anyone offer recommendations?
Ideas I've considered:
1.) Doing a fresh RHEL5 and cPanel provisioning on the new drive while the old drive is installed in the server's third drive bay and then using WHM's migration tools to reactivate all the accounts. This seems like it would lead to a fairly lengthy downtime.
2.) Installing the new drive initially as the third drive, using some utility (dd? partimage? Something else -- recommendations/confirmations welcome!) to clone the partitions from the old drive to the new one and then (if it wasn't done as part of the transfer) resize the partitions to fill the new drive.
Recommendations?
Thanks,
Tim
I'm looking to replace my primary drive in a live cPanel-based server with a new, larger drive. I'm trying to figure out how to do this with the absolute minimum downtime possible. Can anyone offer recommendations?
Ideas I've considered:
1.) Doing a fresh RHEL5 and cPanel provisioning on the new drive while the old drive is installed in the server's third drive bay and then using WHM's migration tools to reactivate all the accounts. This seems like it would lead to a fairly lengthy downtime.
2.) Installing the new drive initially as the third drive, using some utility (dd? partimage? Something else -- recommendations/confirmations welcome!) to clone the partitions from the old drive to the new one and then (if it wasn't done as part of the transfer) resize the partitions to fill the new drive.
Recommendations?
Thanks,
Tim