Hi fellow RAQ managers,

I'm fresh new on RAQ management, and we face a problem here: all the user data on the disks are OK, but we had an OS problem, which prevent us from being able to log onto the RAQ 550 machine. The machine has 2 disks in RAID-1 actually.

We have another RAQ machine here (actually a RAQ 4, but we are now installing RAQ 550 OS on it now) on the shelf, and I was wondering if it could be possible, after the RAQ 4 is up with its RAQ 550 fresh setup, to put one of the RAQ 550 disks in the RAQ 4, for transfering the user data (web and mail) to the newly installed RAQ 4??

Could someone of you have a quick answer on it, with some hints to proceed?

Thanks in advance!! This would help us very much!! :)

When you put the "new" disk from the 550 into the 4, it will either be overwritten with the blank settings from the RaQ 4 install, or it will refuse to recognize the drive as it's already formatted and partitioned.

I would try putting the 550 disk into the 4 by itself and see if it boots. Then try adding a clean second disk to let the RAID rebuild itself. I doubt it will work though.

Try the Cobalt Migration Utility (CMU) for migrating content... it's your best bet. http://www.oldad.com/raqbackup-script-info.html

Thanks for your answer, Bruce. As I don't know very well the RAQ technology yet, I was affraid that placing the 2nd disk in the RAQ4 machine, the RAQ4 would wipe it and attach it as a RAID-0 or RAID-1 device...

Since it was pretty urgent, I decided to mount the disk on a PC already mounted as a Linux box, and I copied the data from it to the Linux box, and then migrated it to the new installed RAQ4. It took the time to setup de RAQ4, patching it, copying the data on the Linux box and migrating it, but at least no user data was lost!

Thanks for your answer!