Degraded raid status

[nick638]

I am new to this forums and perhaps this questions have been answered before.
We have this XServe running V. 10.3.9 with 24 FileMaker apps as part of an office network. Two 80 Gb hard drives in rain configuration. Have not upgraded to Tiger yet but will do so very soon. A warning light on the xserver is telling me that the Raid status of the hard drives is degraded.
I realize that to stripe the drives I will loose all the data ( is this still true ?), I am currently backing up with Retrospect and I intend to make a good back up copy before i attempt anything.
Since I am going to upgrade to Tiger soon are there any special precautions that I must take before hand ? Any other advise will be appreciated.

Thanks/Nick
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[Anonymous]

I have a question about this…

Has anybody run “diskutil convertRAID” on a *live* server where the mirror was the boot drive?

Does it work? Or do you need to run “convertRAID” after you have booted from an external source (like the 10.4 CD).

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