Well all the servers have physical disks in them if thats what you mean
so I guess its setup through Hardware. So take for example a server
with 2 physical scsi disks creating a RAID mirror. Say it also has a
SAN Drive . So now say disk 0 has 3 partitions on it C,D & E and the
SAN Drive is F. If I only ghost the OS partition C then how would I
rebuild the server to the original RAID configuration and assigned SAN
Drive F. It strikes me I will only have a Disk with a C Drive on it and
no D,E or F and no RAID setup like before. I wnat to be able to restore
the server using the Ghost image without having to totally rebuild the
server.
Thanks
Neteng wrote:
> How is your RAID setup? Hardware or software?
>
> If you server has enterprise apps, you'll need to ghost that as well, but
> that should be on the same partition as the OS. To get the partition number,
> you can run something like fdisk and it will show you the partitions. Don't
> use FDISK! (stated for reference only) You will need an app that can read
> your partitions. Typically with Windows, partition 1 is your system
> partition. What ever partition is active is the system partition (unless you
> are dual-booting).
>
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Thanks Neteng for getting back so soon
> >
> > This sounds like a good idea but how would I rebuild the RAID
> > Configuration and SAN configuration in the event of a total disaster -
> > is this information held in the OS partition? Is it the case that once
> > I put the OS Partition back on everything will fall back into place?
> >
> > Also some of our servers have very important applications running on
> > them that would take some time to reinstall - would it be sensible to
> > image these too?
> >
> > The Symantec Ghost Multicast console confuses me a bit! When you choose
> > to load a partition onto a PC it requires you to specify a drive and
> > partition number. Where would I get this information for say Drive C: ?
> >
> > Thanks Again...
> > Neteng wrote:
> >
> > > I would not use Ghost as DR of data. You could image the OS partition,
> then
> > > manually create the other partitions, and restore data from backup.
> That's
> > > also a lot faster than Ghosting every partition. All of the data (on SAN
> and
> > > local partitions) should be part of your backup plan and ghosting all
> them
> > > is'nt necessary.
> > >
> > > <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > > news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > > Hello
> > > >
> > > > I am an IT Administrator using Symantec Ghost Version 7.0.0.243
> > > >
> > > > I want to be able to ghost all our servers and I am having to use the
> > > > Unicasting Method over a Network then connect to a Multicasting
> session
> > > > on the Ghost Server. I have several Dell Servers which have a
> > > > combination of RAID 1 + 0 and RAID 5 on them consisting of 2 Dynamic
> > > > Volumes and another Dynamic SAN Volume. My first issue is that my
> > > > version of Ghost does not support Disk Ghosting - only partition with
> > > > Dynamic Disks. Can someone please advise how I would go about taking
> > > > ghost images of these partitions and what is the process of loading
> > > > them back onto the Server in the event of a disaster.
> > > >
> > > > Im slightly confused about the reloading process because when I choose
> > > > the Partition to reload I must also select a Disk Number and Partition
> > > > Number and Im a bit confused about it all. I would be alright if Ghost
> > > > would treat every physical disk as one but as it doesn't do this I am
> > > > confused about how to Ghost each seperate partition and in what
> > > > sequence to reload them etc.
> > > > I also have several servers which have a combination of Dynamic and
> > > > Basic Disks with Raid 1 + 0 and 5 - This means that I can ghost the
> > > > entire Basic Disk but only ghost each seperate partition on the
> > > > Dynamic. Whats the best way to dump an image from these and how do I
> go
> > > > about reloading them onto the server.
> > > > Finally, we have several servers with Basic only disks ( 3 volumes )
> > > > with RAID 1 + 0 only. If I ghost these using the Disk method, How do I
> > > > reload this image onto the server and will the RAID config still be
> > > > intact given that I have only ghosted one physical disk.
> > > >
> > > > Overall I am very confused about how to Ghost Servers with RAID and
> SAN
> > > > and if someone could explain the process it would be very much
> > > > appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > Des
> > > >
> >
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