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going to RAID with systems and backup scenario.

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staatsof

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I'm building two new identical systems which have onboard raid 0,1,0+1,5.
I'm probably going to use RAID 1 as I've suffered through the expensive recovery
from a crashed hard drive before. I have 4 SATA connectors on each board plus IDE as well. I'll be doing backups on a Plextor PX-716UF. I have 5 80GB Seagate SATA drives and 2 80GB IDE drives that could be used to backup as well. I also have a 24GB Seagate dds tape drive but it's very slow. Honestly, 80GB is enough storage for me.

In the past I've used Ghost to make image backups and that's been fine but now I'm
considering the Acronis software though I'm not sure the home version will do RAID.

So my questions.

1. If I build a RAID 1 set, load the OS (XP pro 32bit), load all the updates can I then use Acronis or the latest version of Ghost to clone another set for the second machine?
Or how exactly do I accomplish this? The two mother boards are Gigabyte with the same chipset and only differ by the # of PCI slots. So I'm thinking a clone should work?

2. I have read through(mostly skimmed) the workstation version manual for Acronis and
it does some impressive things but I am wondering if it is a little too much for a simple home 2-desktop 1-laptop and 1-tablet network.

Would the home version be enough or does it not support Raid?
The lack of tape support for backups in the home version does not concern me. I think the DVDs are my future.

3. Could I utilize my spare 80GB IDE drives for the Acronis "backup zone?" or
could I use them to hold the IMAGE backup of the raid set as well?

Thanks for any advice.

Bob
 
I'm still using True Image 8 which works fine for RAID-0. I believe there were issues with RAID-0 and NForce boards as Acronis could not obtain the source code but I'm do not know about the current version.

I've never tried TI with RAID-1 simply because I've never configured my system that way, but I doubt there would be a problem.

Get a better answer at the official True Image support site, Wilders Security Forums. You'll need an account to post and their account creation routine involves a bit more security than other forums on the web.
Good luck!
 
I have used TI since version 2 - now have 10. It works fine on my RAID 1 array - treats it as a single SCSI drive. 🙂 I back up that array weekly on an external.

 
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