[RESOLVED] Mounting existing raid5 on new omv installation

capathor · 30. März 2013

Hi there!

First of all: I don't know if this is the right place for this thread, so please correct me.

Because it seems that I have a problem with my apache2-config (see here: http://forums.openmediavault.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1789) and wasted the whole day to figure out that I don't have a clue what is going (wr)on(g) on my OMV, I decided to reinstall OMV. Now I'm afraid of loosing my data on the software raid5.

My hardware is a N40 with a 4x3TB HDD-bay and a 64GB SSD for the System.

Is it safe to unplug the raid volumes, install OMV again, replug the raid volumes and everythings fine? Will the new OMV installation recognize the 'old software raid5' automatically an be able to mount it?

Thanks in advance,
capa

tekkb · 30. März 2013

Yes you can do this and should not lose any data. You can also do it with LVM.

SerErris · 1. April 2013

Everything as you wrote. But after you see the raid and the filesystem you need to recreate the shares and exports again, which is purely configurational stuff that is not on the raid,

capathor · 6. April 2013

Thanks for the answeres.
Got no problems in reactivating the raid.
Everything works fine now!

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