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Enable RAID on the boot disk without a reinstall
Authored by: plink53 on Oct 18, '04 04:05:52PM

There is a faster (and easier) way to do this, especailly since you're already suggesting that the user back up their boot disk. If you backed up your boot disk to a firewire drive, then boot off that drive. Put however many drives into your desktop or server that you want, then run the normal Disk Utility routines to create a mirrored drive. This is a very quick process that doesn't require the block-by-block copying of the master disk. Once the mirror is created, copy your boot disk to this RAID set and reboot. I've used both Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper to do this and it's much faster than the mirror restore.



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