In-Place Upgrade in a simple environment

We have a fairly simple environment consisting of one NT4 server that is our
PDC (no BDC) with four SCSI drives that are NTFS and using software RAID 1,
an older Netware 3.12 server for legacy software connected to our NT server
via Gateway Services and another NT4 server at a remote location with trust
relationships with the PDC via a VPN. Our router handles the VPN duties so
there is no VPN software involved. The NT4 server is a Dell Poweredge 2300
with dual Pentium III 450 Mhz processors and 768 MB of RAM.

What we want to do is an in-place upgrade of the NT4 server to Win2K3. While
I understand that it is not recommended I don't see any real problems except
for one. In the Microsoft Press book on migrating it states that all
multi-disk volumes must be backed up and then deleted, the upgrade performed
and then everything restored. Given that our drives are simply mirrored
couldn't we perform the backup (Which we were doing anyway.), break the
mirror, perform the upgrade and then convert to dynamic disks and recreate
the mirror?


Jim


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