Hello folks,

I have a sun sparcstation 20, I would like to upgrade one of the hard disks to a larger one. The one I would like to upgrade only contains user data. Here are my thoughts:

1. Backup the specific file system
2. Replace the disk with the larger disk
3. Create a new file system
4. Restore the user data

I would have liked to do a disk to disk copy but I am max on scsi devices so I will use tape.

Questions are:

1. I purchased a used Seagate ST19171/WC that supposedly came out of a sun box. I have read some threads here stating that it seems difficult to get generic hard disks to work with sun systems. Is this true and anyone know how to overcome this?

2. Using a backup utility called "Mr. Backup" is there anything special about the restore? Since the file systems will be different is there anything specific that I will need to do to get this to work. Or should I use the sun utilities tar /cpio?

All help would be greatly appreciated,

Don