Seeking guidance on upgrading from single drive to RAID on XServe

Hi,
I'd be grateful for any guidance anyone can give me on upgrading my XServe to a RAID.
My 2GHz G5 XServe runs 10.3 and has a single 80GB drive. It's been running for 3 years providing mail, web sites (around 100) and around 10 java applications for that time without any trouble. However, I'd like to get it running on a mirrored RAID array (RAID1).
Is it possible to backup the existing disk to a FW drive. Insert a new disk, format the old and new disk as a RAID1 setup, then restore the previous OS setup, user, mail, web sites, applications etc?
I've got this server running very sweetly, it's extremely reliable but I'm worried about the disk failing.
I've read other posts here that have described trying to do this but that the old backup may overwrite low level RAID1 formatting upon restore. Any thoughts on how I can avoid that?
Kind Regards,
Chris.

Hi Chris
I’ve never done it that way because of the potential problems you describe. Perhaps some of the other guys have a way of making that method reliable. Seeing as you have an XServe why don’t you buy two drives instead of one? They are cheap enough nowadays. 2x250GB SATA drives should do.
I would target disk mode the server to a laptop for example and prep your RAID Mirror that way. Restore using DU or clone using CCCloner to the new RAID, restart and test. This way if you hit any problems you will still have a working server on your original drive. Plan on 40mins to an hour downtime.
Hope this helps – Tony

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