hello all, i wonder if there is anyone here who can help me, i know very little about servers and i suspect i have done something stupid, and im hoping its reversable.
i have a poweredge 2900, all was fine, but it started to get slow, so i have bought a new newer version with a lot more ram, twin cpus etc.
both systems have the PERC5
bays 0 and 1 are a mirrored pair with OS and data on them
bays 2,3 and 4 are a raid 5 containing my media files
bays 5,6 and 7 are just single drives.
i backed up my data from the OS drive, just my person stuff as i was expecting to need to do a reinstall.
then i took bays 1 and 2 from the old server to the new, imported foreign config and the machine booted, did a few updates etc and all was fine.
this is where i started to mess up...
as the first pair worked, i assumed the rest would, and put the rest of the drives in (all drive in the same order, in the same bays). believing it would work due to the first two working, i didnt back up the raid 5 drives. and yes i know it was stupid
the new server wont see the drives, so now i took all the drives out and put them back into the old server. in the old server it has the option to import the foriegn cofig from the first two drives, and all the rest have rebuild next to them.
i am now scared to be honest to do anything else for fear of losing all my media etc, is there anyone that can talk me through this in baby steps please?
thanks