[schalliol]

I have a startup volume that I'd like to move over to RAID 1, and it's smaller than one drive. I assume there's no way to tell Disk Utility to convert it to a mirror, but if I don't want to change anything else, what's the best procedure to clone the volume so that I can format for a mirror, dump the data back on and boot as though nothing happened? Is carbon copy cloner still the best way to do this?

[mduell]

CCC if you like the gooey, dd if you like the CLI.

[OreoCookie]

You can also use Disk Utility for that, it can create (bootable) images from volumes.

[schalliol]

Originally Posted by OreoCookie 

You can also use Disk Utility for that, it can create (bootable) images from volumes.

Interesting. If I were to do this using Disk Utility. Could I create this bootable image and then restore to a RAID 1 from the RAID 0 array?

[OreoCookie]

Sure. You can restore from disk images made of volumes to other volumes.