I have an Dell PowerEdge T310 that came with a PERC S300 controller. I want to change that to an PERC H700 controller. That means I will need to remake the RAID-5 disk, which contains all of the partitions and volumes. They fill the disk
space. The last time I did this I booted with the Dell Driver and Documentation disk, and it led me through until the time when it asked me to make a partition, which I did for the C: drive, and another extended partition, with a logical D: data partition,
and restore D: as I recall.
Before I had extra physical disk space. This time the partitions and volumes fill the drive. From what I read, if I don't get the boundaries just right, I will be trying to restore to a volume that is slightly smaller than the backup, and even if there is a lot of free space, it won't restore. What steps should I take to backup and restore this server? Should I be shrinking volumes?
Thanks!
Before I had extra physical disk space. This time the partitions and volumes fill the drive. From what I read, if I don't get the boundaries just right, I will be trying to restore to a volume that is slightly smaller than the backup, and even if there is a lot of free space, it won't restore. What steps should I take to backup and restore this server? Should I be shrinking volumes?
Thanks!