bigt11 0 Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Looooong time lurker, first time poster. So I have WHS2011 and my client backups are on a motherboard AMD Chipset raid 5 (4 2TB drives) we will call it the R: drive. I Acquired a LSI 8308ELP and want to use that. So I put 2 more 2TB drives on the LSI in raid 0 (we will call it the S: drive) so I can create a temporary drive to just straight up copy over all the files off of the R: drive onto the S: drive. I dont really have any files besides client backups. So essentially after it is copied over to the s: drive, I will remove the R: drive, recreate it on the LSI controler, format the space on WHS, call it R: again, then copy back over all the files to it. Will that actually work? Will WHS recognize the new r: drive after I removed it? Anything special I have to do. I searched the forums, but could not find a problem like this. Thanks for any suggestions. Link to post Share on other sites
jmwills 284 Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 If I read this right, I don't see why this will not work. No backups to rely on? Link to post Share on other sites
ikon 439 Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 ^^ What he said. My first thought was, "Where are the backups of the backup files?" Why? Because it means you can try anything you like without risk of losing data. Link to post Share on other sites
bigt11 0 Posted March 21, 2013 Author Share Posted March 21, 2013 Thanks guys. I do have a 123 backup currently. Its not a huge deal If i have to redo all the home server backups, but I thought i might as well try to save what I have. I'll let you know how it goes. Link to post Share on other sites
ikon 439 Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Glad to hear you've got backup covered. And yes please, let us know how it goes. Link to post Share on other sites
bigt11 0 Posted April 5, 2013 Author Share Posted April 5, 2013 just following up that everything seemed to work out just fine. I copied the client backups folder with teraCopy to the other raid array. I also did go into the services of the server and turned off the backup service so no conflicts would happen when copying. I then removed the raid array that was on the motherboard and recreated it with my lsi raid card. I created a partition that would be used for the client backups (named it the same drive letter that WHS2011 was initially looking at). Recopied my data back onto it, then restarted the server. It found all the content no problem and I have since made a few more backups to it and no conflicts so far so i think its a mission accomplished. Thanks for the help. Link to post Share on other sites
ikon 439 Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 Thanks for posting back. Great to hear it's all working. Link to post Share on other sites
jmwills 284 Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 Living on the edge.....like it!! Link to post Share on other sites
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