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Old January 10th, 2008, 10:42 AM
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OSX SRV 10.3.9 - moving to new drive

Had a drive fail in the osx server box, the other mirror is still running but who knows for how long. I've purchased a external drive and want to install X to it and use that as the boot and storage volume.

Is there a best practices way of migrating to the new drive? I can install X, but then how do you move and retain data/rights? Is there a way to just "copy" for lack of a better term the entire volume to the new one?

I've used ghost on a windows machine, not done anything like that on a mac before.

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Old January 10th, 2008, 11:15 PM
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Without delving into the command line, you could use Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the drive to the external drive. You can then safely try booting off of that external drive and see if it runs to your liking. Remember, always backup your data!

Is the server box an Xserve? Why not just match the drive again and use reliable external storage for mass storage?

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