Ghost or Driveimage of RAID 1 partition on Abit NF7-S

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I need to build a low use server running Windows 2003. I am looking at an
Abit NF7-S and using 2 SATA drives in RAID1 (for redundancy) with the
onboard RAID controller.

I was considering 2 partitions on the hard drive. One for the OS and one for
data. An externel USB2 hard drive would be used for backup of the data
partition.

I would like to image the C: patition to CDR using either Ghost or
Driveimage or something else so I could easily rebuild the drives. Are there
any issues with imaging/restoring a RAID1 set on the hardware I described.

Also in practice what happens when a drive fails on the above hardware? Does
the system continue to operate or does it stop?

Thanks
 
George said:
I need to build a low use server running Windows 2003. I am looking at an
Abit NF7-S and using 2 SATA drives in RAID1 (for redundancy) with the
onboard RAID controller.

I was considering 2 partitions on the hard drive. One for the OS and one for
data. An externel USB2 hard drive would be used for backup of the data
partition.

I would like to image the C: patition to CDR using either Ghost or
Driveimage or something else so I could easily rebuild the drives. Are there
any issues with imaging/restoring a RAID1 set on the hardware I described.
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All should work. Consider: www.acronis.com
Also in practice what happens when a drive fails on the above hardware? Does
the system continue to operate or does it stop?
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Continues generally.
 
George said:
Thanks, I will consider acronis. What is your confidence level given the
hardware I described?
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RAID 1 should prevent the system from ever experiencing a failure due to the
HDs themselves.
 
Ron Reaugh said:
RAID 1 should prevent the system from ever experiencing a failure due to the
HDs themselves.
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Sorry, my question about confidence level was meant to be whether I could
sucessfully image and restore the RAID 1 array using one of the imaging
products.
 
George said:
Sorry, my question about confidence level was meant to be whether I could
sucessfully image and restore the RAID 1 array using one of the imaging
products.
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High confidence.
 
George said:
I need to build a low use server running Windows 2003. I am looking at an
Abit NF7-S and using 2 SATA drives in RAID1 (for redundancy) with the
onboard RAID controller.

I was considering 2 partitions on the hard drive. One for the OS and one for
data. An externel USB2 hard drive would be used for backup of the data
partition.

I would like to image the C: patition to CDR using either Ghost or
Driveimage or something else so I could easily rebuild the drives. Are there
any issues with imaging/restoring a RAID1 set on the hardware I described.

Also in practice what happens when a drive fails on the above hardware? Does
the system continue to operate or does it stop?

Thanks
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My experience with XP Pro was if the OS needed driver input from F6 on original install
then reinstalling the OS partition using DI requires the use of F6. Other than that no problems.
 
George said:
I need to build a low use server running Windows 2003. I am looking at an
Abit NF7-S and using 2 SATA drives in RAID1 (for redundancy) with the
onboard RAID controller.

I was considering 2 partitions on the hard drive. One for the OS and one for
data. An externel USB2 hard drive would be used for backup of the data
partition.

I would like to image the C: patition to CDR using either Ghost or
Driveimage or something else so I could easily rebuild the drives. Are there
any issues with imaging/restoring a RAID1 set on the hardware I described.

Also in practice what happens when a drive fails on the above hardware? Does
the system continue to operate or does it stop?

Thanks


My experience with XP Pro was if the OS needed driver input from F6 on original >install
then reinstalling the OS partition using DI requires the use of F6. Other
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than that no >problems.

Restoring an image file to similar/identical HW in XP generally does NOT
require any drivers.
 
Wotanidiot.
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Why do you say that?

If there is no HW change, why would there be a need for
additional/different drivers? I would think all the drivers that are
needed are contained in the image.


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All I can talk about is my own case.
When I start the machine with the Drive Image 7.1 CD to start the PowerQuest Recovery Environment if I do not use F6 to install the Intel drivers DI does not recognize the SATA drives.
This is an Intel 875PBZ with two WD SATA in RAID 1.
If I use F6 to install it works fine.
My guess is that the OS that DI installs does not have drivers to allow it to read the Intel SATA disks.
According to the window that opens to allow the use of F6 it does include some additional drivers but not the one I need.
(It is the same routine you get when installing XP and you need a driver installed.)
Hope this helps.
Stuart
 
Stuart said:
All I can talk about is my own case.
When I start the machine with the Drive Image 7.1 CD to start the PowerQuest Recovery Environment if I do not use F6 to install
the Intel drivers DI does not recognize the SATA drives.
This is an Intel 875PBZ with two WD SATA in RAID 1.
If I use F6 to install it works fine.
My guess is that the OS that DI installs does not have drivers to allow it to read the Intel SATA disks.
According to the window that opens to allow the use of F6 it does include some additional drivers but not the one I need.
(It is the same routine you get when installing XP and you need a driver installed.)
Hope this helps.
Stuart
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You should switch off 'quoted-printable' in options|send

Does that answer your question, Bob?
 
You should switch off 'quoted-printable' in options|send


Does that answer your question, Bob?
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Perhaps there is some confusion regarding the type of backup involved.

For example, when I use Drive Image Pro to backup by hard disk, I boot
from 2 floppies which have Caldera DR-DOS. When I perform the backup,
I make a "disk to disk" copy, which includes everything I need to
restore the entire disk. I do not have to provide any separate drivers
when I restore.

Apparently you all have been talking about something else which
requires separate drivers. A clarification is in order.
 
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