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April 3rd, 2008 16:00

RAID-Friendly Disk Cloning Software?

Looking to clone a 12GB partition on a non-RAID drive to a 74GB RAID 1 array on a Dell PERC 4/SC... Any software suggestions? I have a bootable copy of Norton Ghost 8, but apparently RAID is not officially supported (though hardware RAID controllers may work); so I'm looking into using a current bootable copy of Acronis True Image. Are there any better (or industry standard) programs for the job? I'm new at this RAID stuff...

 

Thanks.

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April 3rd, 2008 16:00

Raid shouldn't make a difference usually, but some imaging software loads specific drivers causing it to act slightly different than a full OS would.

Ghost 8 is somewhat dated (I think the latest version is 11), so an updated version may be a better choice, or indeed something like Acronis True Image (server edition).

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April 4th, 2008 00:00

Have you actually tried with Norton Ghost yet? It may not be supported, but as long as Ghost see's the array as a single drive, as apposed to seperate drives, there shouldn't be a problem.

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April 4th, 2008 12:00

Twicesliced... 

Have not used Ghost on a raid in a while, been using Acronis, works great, except with Dynamic disks (True Image v 9.1).

Always run chkdsk and a surface scan on the source before cloning or imaging with any imaging software.

 

 

April 8th, 2008 16:00

I only mention Ghost 8 because I understand that it was the last bootable version of Ghost (was last packaged with Ghost 2003, if I recall correctly); I just want to perform a straight clone of a partition to an empty RAID 1 array, and I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible (i.e. refrain from installing any new software).

 

The copy of Acronis True Image that I have is Home 11, and it includes a bootable cloning suite. Are there any important differences to be aware of between the Home and Server editions of the software if all I'm doing is cloning a drive?

 

Unfortunately, I have not been able to test either Ghost 8 or True Image on the server itself as any downtime isn't an option just yet.

 

Thanks for all the advice so far! I'll be back with results.

April 25th, 2008 17:00

Ended up trying Seagate DiskWizard (re-branded Acronis True Iamge 10), but it didn't seem to support cloning a partition to a disk... So I went with Ghost 11 (didn't realize that Symantec was still updating the bootable version), and all went well! Thanks for the input, everyone.
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