Recent HD failures and backups

[orion7144]

Ok with all these recent posts of HD's going bad, I want to make sure my data is backed up correctly. I have Systemworks 2k3 which I believe has Ghost on it. Now if I use Ghost will it save everything exactly as it is from the sorce including OS files? Lets say my boot drive dies, how do I recover my image from a seperate raid array on a different controller? Is it possible? I have my raptors as RAID 0 on the ICH5R and my 2 WD 120gig drives on a Highpoint PCI raid controller in RAID 1.

Thanks

 

[beatle]

A RAID 1 man, right on! Just run ghost from the floppy and do a disk to disk transfer of the image.

 

[orion7144]

Originally posted by: beatle
A RAID 1 man, right on! Just run ghost from the floppy and do a disk to disk transfer of the image.

2 more questions then..

1. I don't have a ghost floppy just the Systemworks CD (I asume I can make a floppy but I'm at work)
2. How will booting from the ghost floppy beable to see my raid array with no drivers for the card?

 

[orion7144]

Anyone?

 

[orion7144]

Does anyone know the answere to my two questions above?

 

[Stratosphere]

From my understanding Ghost will make a exact copy of you hard drive. So you can put it on cd or another hard drive I think.

I think that you might be able to boot from the cd, but maybe not. I would think that they should have documentation on how it works exactly.

 

[orion7144]

Originally posted by: Stratosphere
From my understanding Ghost will make a exact copy of you hard drive. So you can put it on cd or another hard drive I think.

I think that you might be able to boot from the cd, but maybe not. I would think that they should have documentation on how it works exactly.

I know that I can put it on another drive but since the other drive is on a different RAID array how am I supposed to get the image w/o installing the RAID drivers. I could put the image on a cd but still how does ghost know were my drives are since they are on a RAID setup.