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replacing harddisk on cPanel server
Hi
My dedicated server have 2 harddisk
- 120G SSD
- 1TB SATA
server have cPanel installed and have around 1000 cPanel accounts.
S.M.A.R.T report us that 120G SSD drive is failing soon and need to be replaced.
Is it possible to just install new SSD, copy all data from old SSD to new one and then this cPanel server will be online again as before with all the same config and accounts?
Regards,
zidit
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Clone the old SSD, and ur done. Should work just fine.
Can you share any tutorial how to do this?
Use Macrium Reflect.
Which SSD you are using, I mean Company name?
Is it a RAID 10 server ?
Will simple rsync between two drive work?
I don't know. I pay server fee monthly at some hosting company
No RAID
Of course not.. Rsync/Copy will not copy over the boot record etc.
dd
I see
Do I need to do anything to make new drive bootable? or am I miss something that require in this process?
Thanks
Make a backup first. You would not be the first person to switch the source and the target of a dd operation.
Yes, I will make backup first.
This is how I will do it.
Maybe try Clonezilla?
I'm not sure how many disk bays are available in this server -- but at a minimum you should likely be using RAID1 for each of these disks.
What I'd do (assuming disk drive bays are avail) is add another 120 gb ssd and setup software raid1 -- and afterward replace the failing disk -- but keep it as a raid 1 mirror long term.
I'd do the same to the 1tb drive too -- as it will fail eventually.
Also -- this is a good time to evaluate your backups. You'd be able to recover in the event this disk drive fails before you have time to replace, right?
That's good idea. I will ask DC if they can provide it. Thanks
I will do this as a second plan as I have many configuration and setting need to be done.
Thanks, I will try it.
You REALLY should have had a mirror. However, I think Crucial SSD's come with Acronis, that will let you clone the SSD to the second just fine. I would reccomend you go with a mirror from now on. Even if its software.