software to image RAID Drive

Smallguy

Hi

I'm looking for software to image a RAID 1

so far I've not had much luck finding software

can anyone point me in the right direction

wagnerbm

I have done a little research on this along with another co-worker. The latest Ghost is suppose to work with RAID even though it isn't documented or supported. But I have been told it works.

Mishra

I'm confused. You are looking to put a image on a RAID 1 drive? Are you looking for software that will RAID drives for you?

Ahriakin

As long as the boot environment you use (whether running Ghost from inside the operating system on a non-system partition or from a bootable Vendor disk) has drivers for your RAID controller it'll work just like a normal drive.
Essentially once the software can talk to the controller the arrays appear as any other drive.

Smallguy

Mishra wrote:

I'm confused. You are looking to put a image on a RAID 1 drive? Are you looking for software that will RAID drives for you?

I'm looking to get an image of a server I just built because we are making a backup server for it to run side by side so if one dies we can flip over to the other

Smallguy

Ahriakin wrote:

As long as the boot environment you use (whether running Ghost from inside the operating system on a non-system partition or from a bootable Vendor disk) has drivers for your RAID controller it'll work just like a normal drive.
Essentially once the software can talk to the controller the arrays appear as any other drive.

thanks I'll have to try and figure out why it keeps hanging

maybe it's a driver issue but my Ghost experience is very limited

Smallguy

Ahriakin wrote:

As long as the boot environment you use (whether running Ghost from inside the operating system on a non-system partition or from a bootable Vendor disk) has drivers for your RAID controller it'll work just like a normal drive.
Essentially once the software can talk to the controller the arrays appear as any other drive.

the drives appear in Ghost but when ever I try to perform the Ghost is fails

I also tired using Acronis True image and it fails trying to write to the backup drive

guess it could be a drive issue on the drive I'm trying to write to though

I jsut would need have another external drive to test that

Mishra

Smallguy wrote:

Ahriakin wrote:

As long as the boot environment you use (whether running Ghost from inside the operating system on a non-system partition or from a bootable Vendor disk) has drivers for your RAID controller it'll work just like a normal drive.
Essentially once the software can talk to the controller the arrays appear as any other drive.

the drives appear in Ghost but when ever I try to perform the Ghost is fails

I also tired using Acronis True image and it fails trying to write to the backup drive

guess it could be a drive issue on the drive I'm trying to write to though

I jsut would need have another external drive to test that

Where are you trying to save the image?

Smallguy

Mishra wrote:

Smallguy wrote:

Ahriakin wrote:

As long as the boot environment you use (whether running Ghost from inside the operating system on a non-system partition or from a bootable Vendor disk) has drivers for your RAID controller it'll work just like a normal drive.
Essentially once the software can talk to the controller the arrays appear as any other drive.

the drives appear in Ghost but when ever I try to perform the Ghost is fails

I also tired using Acronis True image and it fails trying to write to the backup drive

guess it could be a drive issue on the drive I'm trying to write to though

I jsut would need have another external drive to test that

Where are you trying to save the image?

to an external drive.... never had an issue with this before with Acronis or Norton for desktop 's and laptops but for some reason with this server it fails trying to write in Acronis and fails with Ghost as well

Ahriakin

Fails to write, are you sure it is not a problem with that server recognising the USB drive? Are you choosing to use specific USB drivers within Ghost or letting the BIOS handle it? Whichever you are currently using try the other method.