Rebuilding my HDA

[rbmattis]

My first amahi box was an Compaq Pentium 4. It worked just fine but I want a smaller server, so I found a HP Proliant N36L microserver on-sale for only $255. Now I'd like to rebuild my HDA.

It's not quite as simple as just moving all my drives from the old machine to the new machine as the new machine has space for only 5 drives (4 in the SAS backplane), one in the 5.25" bay.

Here's my tentative config:
put the Fedora+Amahi on my 30 GB SSD (what should I use for the appropriate partition sizes with only 30GB?)
put the Greyhole LZ on my 160 GB hard drive (is that enough room?)
put 2x2TB samsung drives as my main storage array.

Is there any way to transfer the major settings from the first HDA to the second before I sell it?

Given that I'm going to be going from 6 drives to 4, how do I ensure all the files from the 2 no longer used drives make it onto the new machine?

Thanks.

[evylrat]

1. Via do an Embedded M'Serv S2100 server that was featured on the Amahi blog. It runs off a 4gb CF card. There are install instructions on youtube for it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wofeHDdDix4) perhaps you could adapt it for the larger SSD drive.
2. 160gb should be plenty for the LZ, I was running 120gb until replacing the IDE 2.5in drive with a 160gb drive, which ALSO runs the OS. Perhaps you could do away with the SSD and run it all from the 160gb drive? If you're planning on copying data that exceeds 160gb to the drive in one hit (like transferring from one system to another), on windows I used a copying program that LIMITS the copy speed; it was only copying as quick as greyhole was shifting data off the LZ.
OR using program like SizeMe, break your data into 140Gb or so chunks, and schedule copy tasks, allowing time for Greyhole to move files around.

3. Greyhole drives. I've not found a way to backup drives, but if you follow http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Self-in ... 2Bgreyhole it says you have to recreate all your shares as per before. I did this recently when going from Amahi 5 to Amahi 6, I just took snapshots of the HDA pages. This recreates all the shortcuts on your LZ.
Getting data from the smaller drives to the larger drives... is there enough free spaces to remove a drive? Or can you use an external drive? Mount the external drive on the existing, add it to your pool. Use the GOING Greyhole command to empty the smallest storage drive. THEN you can add your new 2TB drive. Once that's in, use going on all the drives.

I'm sure someone will correct me on all this, as I'm still an Amahi / linux noob!