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01-12-2005, 10:42 AM
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|  Cloning a server to new disks Can anyone recommend software that will take an exact copy of a server, currently a raid 1 mirror, store the image on an external USB drive & then boot from a cd & recopy the image to new drives? Dell Server with Raid 1, one drive has failed, but as its using a hostraid adapter, you cant just replace the faulty disk with a new one & rebuild the array as the hostraid adapters are basically software raid at a bios level. Dell are sending two new disks, which means building a new array, but as this 2003 server is also a terminal server, setting it back up again will take a day or two to do. If I can copy the entire server to an external drive as an exact mirror, so that I can reinstate it to the new drives & carry on as if nothing has changed, but I need to be able to boot from a cd or floppy to recopy the image to the array. Ghost, Acronis True image (which version?) & any other software? Thanks |
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 | drive snapshot  http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/index.htm especially as you can get it to run from a PE environement   |
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| Thanks Moby, the only issue i can see with that, is the SCSI drivers & Network drivers as a dos boot disk, id have to set it up specifically for this server... It also does not mention usb drive support which could be an issue as i have 70gb to backup. The other issue is that you can only backup one partition at a time, i can see if I do that, permissions on the folders on the 2nd partition will fail when its reinstated? Last edited by madman045; 01-12-2005 at 12:00 PM.. |
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