Disk Imaging a Server/RAID Array

gimp

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What options are out there for getting a disk image from a Dell PowerEdge R310 with a SAS 6/iR card?

It looks like Clonezilla should work?

Long story short, I'm cleaning up a clusterfuck of a mess. 1U server with 3 drives in RAID0. No redundancy, obviously, and this is an important system.
1.8TB RAID0 has a 100GB C: partition for OS and software and the rest goes to the E: partition for data.

I'm needing to image this and reconfigure the RAID, so there's a 2 disk RAID1 for OS and software, and 2 disk RAID0 for data.
1U server so only 4 drive bays.

I tried the Windows built-in backup and restore, but it won't restore.
Per a Microsoft TechNet article, I think it was, said you can only restore to the same size or larger disk, regardless of partition size.
Sooo... that was a no go.
Preferably free software.

It looks like Clonezilla should support RAID, but are there any other options? I'd like to have more than 1 option on Monday when I try this again.

The Paragon Server Backup trial might work too, since you can create a WinPE environment and I could inject the necessary drivers.

Any other free options out there?
 
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