RAID is not a backup, they say, but only now I can see that what I really need is an (external) backup.
So, I would like to convert a (software) RAID-1 partition to a non-RAID partition (ext4) in my Linux system (Debian 7), but I am clueless how to do it.
My goal is to remove one of the two internal drives of the current RAID 1 setup and use it as a external backup drive, so I can preserve the data on another physical place.
Is there any way to do this conversion to non-RAID without formatting the current RAID partition (/home) in the (future) single internal drive?
Thanks for any advice, Marcio