[dango99]

Thanks for your reply.

Is there a way to safely create a new boot drive? ie without putting my data at risk...

if i was to power down and remove one drive from the working server, and start the new server from that drive, won't the operating system mark that disk as bad, forcing a resync once i replace it into the old system?

i'm just worried, since i lost my entire photo collection with an adaptec raid controller that decided to do a media check whilst rebuilding an array... and i've been cautious ever since!

before you say "what about backups"? how do you backup 2Tb data other than to a 2nd snap server (which is what this one is for)?

any help much appreciated!

dan