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Title: Do I need to format drive when configuring for RAID 1
Post by: KVL on March 10, 2013, 04:12:10 AM

Hello,

I have just added an additional hard drive to the 320L. The first drive already contains data, the second has been formatted to ext4.

I wanna set the disks up to run with RAID1 - to mirror the drives for failover. Is it required - or will the process - process reformat both drives? I dont wanna loose al the data which I have on the primary drive, as well not so keen on copying 2tb to a temporary drive...

Or can it be configured without touching the data on the primary drive, e.g can someone point me to the instructions on how to do it?

Thanks, K

Title: Re: Do I need to format drive when configuring for RAID 1
Post by: JavaLawyer on March 10, 2013, 07:38:10 AM

    
DNS ShareCenter - Standard Volume to RAID-1 Conversion  (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=41834.0)
the second half of this procedure applies to your scenario.
Please make sure you have a full backup of your data before attempting the referenced procedure.