Best Backup for a RAID 0 setup

[Aidan]

Just wondering what the general consensus is for a backup solution for a new
RAID 0 array that I'll be setting up with two of the new WD Raptor 10K SATA
drives. I'm thinking an external hard drive with Norton Ghost and updating
the drive image routinely should be safe but then again I'm new to this so
I'd like a few opinions from the experts. Thanks much in advance.


Aidan

 

[David A.Lethe]

Just wondering what the general consensus is for a backup solution for a new
RAID 0 array that I'll be setting up with two of the new WD Raptor 10K SATA
drives. I'm thinking an external hard drive with Norton Ghost and updating
the drive image routinely should be safe but then again I'm new to this so
I'd like a few opinions from the experts. Thanks much in advance.


Aidan

"Best" is relative. Doing a raw disk copy is "Best" if you want to
save money and don't care about recovering anything that was lost
prior to the latest drive image.

If you desire to be able to restore historical data, invest in a tape
drive, or if budget doesn't allow, a really cheap big PATA disk that
can handle multiple file-level backups instead of image backups. (BUt
only if you don't mind a more complicated recovery system should you
blow away a chunk of the O/S).

 

[Will Dormann]

Just wondering what the general consensus is for a backup solution for a new
RAID 0 array that I'll be setting up with two of the new WD Raptor 10K SATA
drives. I'm thinking an external hard drive with Norton Ghost and updating
the drive image routinely should be safe but then again I'm new to this so
I'd like a few opinions from the experts.

I use an external HD with Ghost to back up my data and I think that
method works well.

Whether or not Ghost supports a RAID is another question, though. I've
heard reports from people that have used the two together fine, but the
official word from Symantec is that it is unsupported (but may work?):
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPOR...56c2200662ecd&dtype=&prod=&ver=&osv=&osv_lvl=


-WD