"Ghosting" a RAID Configuration... Not Supported???

[Scott Townsend]

We have the New version of Ghost and when we asked Symantec about hot to
Ghost a RAID Drive they said its not a supported configuration.

Had anyone been able to do it, or are there other options?

We have a Server with a 40 GB Partition and a 100GB partition.

We want to make a backup of the 40 onto the 100.

Thanks,
Scott<-

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

We have the New version of Ghost and when we asked Symantec about hot to
Ghost a RAID Drive they said its not a supported configuration.

Had anyone been able to do it, or are there other options?

We have a Server with a 40 GB Partition and a 100GB partition.

We want to make a backup of the 40 onto the 100.

Thanks,
Scott<-

Are you saying that your server system partition is 40
GBytes and that you wish to increase it to 100 GBytes?
If so then this might be a good time to reduce the
system partition to 15 GBytes and place all data onto
a separate partition. This would solve most of your
problems. It would also provide some additional
benefits.

 

[Scott Townsend]

No, the entire system runs fine on the 40 GB partition. the 100 GB partition
was only for Backup.

I wanted to Create a Ghost image of the Main partition and store it to the
100GB backup partition.

Thanks,
Scott<-

 

[mmanning]

We have dell poweredge servers and we use Ghost 2003, from my prior
experiences it is the only version of ghost that works on windows 2000
server. It used to have a IDE raid setup with a dell perc raid
controller and ghost was able to function properly on the partition. I
dont remember if I had to load the raid controller drivers or not, but
try using ghost 2003. Hope this helps.

Marcel Manning
Nexgen Technologies
Enabling Open Source Technologies
http://www.nexgentec.com

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I would boot the machine with a Bart PE boot CD (www.bootdisk.com),
then use xcopy.exe /s /h /o /c to copy the system partition to the
backup partition. This will give you a complete image of your
system partition that can be used for file recovery and even for
booting (with some minor adjustments).