Is there anyway to backup a raid 0 configuration onto a single hard drive? If I have two 40GB drives in Raid 0, can I backup all the content from both to a single 80GB drive if I made two seperate partitions on the 80GB drive (each partition 40GB)?????? Would this work? I want to find a good backup solution for a raid 0 configuration. Preferably what I would eventually like to have is 4 40GB hard drives in Raid 0, and one 160GB drive for backups split into 3 partitions. This would rock. Does anyone know if this is possible and if there is any software to do it? Would DriveCopy work (from the people who make PartitionMagic?)
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Backing up a Raid 0 configuration?
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Thats a good question as I too would like to do the same. I have my current system in Raid 0 and when I build my new system this week I was going to get 2 more 60 gis HD for Raid 0+1. I hane a High Point Rocketraid 404 PCI card to do this with but if I can get by on getting one 120 gig HD that would be sweet. i will chck back soon. Thanks for bringing this up.
Check out www.duocor.com. Far superior to Ghost or Partition Magic in my opinion.
This is good news 😉
So... assuming I had 2 hard drives in Raid 0, both 80GB. And on the side, I had 1 additional hard drive, a 160GB. I split the 160GB into two partitions and copy each of the 80GB's to their own partition on the 160GB drive. I can do that, right? With norton ghost? So now... what happens if one of my hard drives were to fail in the Raid 0. How would I beable to recover using the 160GB backup drive? .... trying to figure how that would work 😉
1st off because you have 2 80gig parts on RAID 0 doesn't mean each HD has it's on Part because in RAID0 they are working together...You can Ghost by HD (your RAID will equal 1 HD no matter how many parts you have) or you can RAID by Parts. If Just a Part blows on me then I RAID that Part only. If the OS blows then I RAID all Parts invloved (usually 3 on my dual boot-up, normally 1 on a sigle part OS) 1 by 1.
Hmmm, well, im not exactly a pro on Raid 0....... but the operating system sees a raid 0 setup as one big hard drive, one big partition. So assuming I had two 80GB drives in raid 0, are you saying it would be possible to copy it over to a single 160GB drive on ONE partition? Would that single 160GB drive be bootable??? So that way if one of my 80GB drives died, then I could just put in the 160GB and run normally 😉
Simply put YES then remember to start backing up the 160giger 😉. The only problem with backing up in this method is if the Main HD crashes while Ghosting then your SOL...that's why I have 2 copy's which I alternate and backup @ least twice weekly so I never loose more then 1 weeks of Data...so RAID 1 with RAID 0 is not that expensive (although a tad slower) in Comparison to having 2 Back-up Drives with Ghost but I like it cause I'm alway selling em off to get better ones 😀
After years of Partition Magic I tried Duocor System Guardian XC 2000. It is so much faster, easier and more reliable that I will never go back. I haven't tried it with RAID, bu they say it works fine in most RAID setups. They have a 30-day free trial download. It costs a bit more ($149), but it's so much better. Ok, I'll stop hyping it now 🙂 I just love this product, it has saved me on more than one occasion and daily backups of my 80 GB drive take about three minutes.
When I put my system together, I purchased 3 of the WD 80-gig JB drives. Two of them are for the RAID that runs my system, the third is for backups, and for being on-site and ready to go should one of the RAID drives ever bite the bullet.
I'm using XP-Pro's backup program to do backups and have the third drive in a removable tray so that the backups can be stored 'off-machine'.
I do worry that my backup drive has only HALF the capacity of my system. But that provides the incentive to keep it clean.
I ***HAVE*** done a restore using this system. (I corrupted the system - can't blame hardware or software). The backup / rebuild went flawlessly.
I'm using XP-Pro's backup program to do backups and have the third drive in a removable tray so that the backups can be stored 'off-machine'.
I do worry that my backup drive has only HALF the capacity of my system. But that provides the incentive to keep it clean.
I ***HAVE*** done a restore using this system. (I corrupted the system - can't blame hardware or software). The backup / rebuild went flawlessly.
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