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All the usual warnings apply. Remember that any old contribs & templates will have to be reinstalled (assuming that they will work with V9)

All the usual warnings apply. Remember that any old contribs & templates will have to be reinstalled (assuming that they will work with V9)

January 2015: I was forced to use this method to recover a 6 year old server, the hardware RAID had fried, not only listing a working RAID, AND leaving the second disk empty. It also deleted the last working disk! And NO usuable backups at all...

January 2015: I was forced to use this method to recover a 6 year old server running SME 8, the hardware RAID had fried, not only listing a working RAID, AND leaving the second disk empty. It also deleted the last working disk! And NO usuable backups at all...

Testdisk helped with the erased disk. I used a SME 7.6 disk to rename the vg. Using the procedure above on the same server with new disks took it's time, but: Everything works!

Testdisk helped with the erased disk. I used a SME 7.6 disk to rename the vg. Using the procedure above on the same server with new disks took it's time, but: Everything works! Running the latest & greatest SME 9 now...

===Using a third drive===

===Using a third drive===

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[[Category:Howto]]

[[Category:Howto]]

[[Category:Administration:Storage]]

[[Category:Administration:Storage]]