Backing up a Raid0 with Norton Ghost 2002/3
I think I have Ghost 2002, I know for sure it supports NTFS/windows 2000/xp. I have never backed up a Raid array (other than using raid1 where you just replce the bad drive and dump). I'm assuming Ghost will create a backup on my 3rd 80GB, and if one of my maxtors fail I re-setup the raid, run the norton recovery disk, and it will reimage to the raid array... assuming being the key word here... does this really work?
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Youll need DOS drivers for the RAID controller for it to work in DOS when ghost is running.
mD
Thanks for the info!
mD
mD
You can boot with a totally clean floppy and still see the array, run FDISK, format, etc.
Same thing with Ghost, you don't need any drivers.
mD
I don't know about SCSI, I'm sure Tex can answer that.
Tex
mD
Just bow out gracefully OK.
Tex
They all work pretty much the same hence none of them need any drivers to work from DOS.
Cheers!
Like you said it doesnt matter in this case.
My appologies again
mD
btw: that quote talks about 'dynamic volumes' so it might be possible for Ghost to detect an array using 'basic volumes' even on SCSI drives because the SCSI controller loads it's own bios during boot so it'll be the same as and IDE controller therefore no need for ASPI drivers.
I just created my backups and created my emergency boot disk, gonna reboot... brb with my test results.
I don't know how the HPT raid works but I'm guessing that something is written to the disks by the HPT controller that tells it that it is setup for RAID and was wondering how Ghost handles that info?