Quick and dirty system recovery: Is this method OKAY

In a message on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:08:15 -0500, wrote :

So far everything is golden. Not really much different from how I installed WBL 3.0 on my Laptop (which lacks a CD-ROM and whose PCMCIA NIC is in the 'unsupported' list) -- I put the laptop's HD in my desktop and installed using the desktop's mobo, etc. and then swapped the hd back in the laptop.

Depends on how the hardware RAID controller stores its configuration. If it stores it on the *disks*, things should be transparent. If it is storing things in its NVRAM, then it depends on exactly what it is storing in its NVRAM. If it is storing disk serial numbers, the dev box will be unhappy, claiming that both disks died and-or were replaced and it might not trust the config (if any) on the disks themselves. If the RAID controller has the option of backing its config up to a floppy, then you should make this floppy backup (you should anyway, in case the RAID controller's battery goes bad or something). Then when the dev box boots with the production system's disks, 'restore' the config from the floppy. You should also have a backup of the dev machine's RAID config as well (so you can restore that later).