Cloning Raid 5

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I've been looking for a good way to do this for years, and I figured I'd ask the experts here to see if they've come up with anything I've missed. is there a way? Most of my clients use the Perc5 in a Dell server to handle their raids. Does anyone have a slick way of imaging these? I'd feel much better having a drive on the shelf with a good image for these arrays.
 
I bought Norton Ghost a few months ago, what a waste of $. Never did clone a single disk using it that would boot.

I found that MaxBlast software can clone a drive very nicely and it is free. Only requires that a Maxtor or Seagate drive be attached to the system.

John
 
What version? i never could get it to work. Did you have to install custom drivers or something?
 
I never have problems with ghost.. although i do load it in a pre-install enviroment as the dos version just doesnt seem to recognise sata too well..

im still using Ghost8.. it still does everything.. ive yet to see a reason to update... i mean it does ghosting via TCP/IP.. what more could you need..
 
gaspah said:
although i do load it in a pre-install enviroment
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What, exactly, do you mean by a "pre-install enviroment"?

Ghost 8 running off of a bootable floppy has served me well for years, even with SATA drives; but I've recently been asked to clone a non-RAID 12GB partition to a clean 74GB RAID 1 array. The thing is, all of the drives are Ultra320 SCSI on a Dell PERC 4/SC controller, and I'm not sure how well Ghost 8 would tackle that kind of job. I also have a bootable Acronis True Image Home 11 CD though...

I won't be able to do any testing for another week or so, but I'd like to have as much info as I can get going into this.
 
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