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recreating a raid 0 setups from ghost

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rasczak

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i have ghost 2003, and my os is sitting on a striped array. if i ghost taht drice will the raid be recreated? i wanna have a good copy of this system b4 i go tooling around with linux on this box.

or would it be easier to just do a windows backup, swipe the disk, recreate raid, install os, and restore from my backup files?

not sure what to do...

thanks
 
For the most part Ghost doesn't care about where the data is sitting, you can ghost the RAID0 array and restore it to a RAID1 array if you have the appropriate drivers for the RAID controller.

So no, Ghost won't recreate the array for you, you'll have to make sure the drives are in a RAID0 setup before restoring the image.
 
Consider abandoning RAID 0 - For 2 drives, it doesn't buy much. Should either drive fail - you lose all your data. because without the matching striped data from one - the other is useless.

RAID 1 buys you mirroring, and a lot better security through redundancy.

And for space, you are better off running two drives separately - possibly one for data and the other for programs.
 
I currently have a Raid 0 array (hardware based) and use Ghost 2003 to backup and restore my system partition, without any problem.

As for drive failures with Raid 0, well yeah, you lose your data, but the same could be said for any standalone drive that goes t*ts up.

Backups are still important regardless of any type of Raid or single drive setups.
 
As for drive failures with Raid 0, well yeah, you lose your data, but the same could be said for any standalone drive that goes t*ts up.

Backups are still important regardless of any type of Raid or single drive setups.
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The difference is that you now have double (or higher) the chance of losing all of your data and potentially double (or higher) the data to lose. And the more drives you put into the array the higher a chance that one of them will fail and take all of your data with it.
 
i like my raid 0 setup. i don't keep anything important on this drive except my os. everything else (apps, thunderbird, photos, client lists, phone numbers, addy's and email) is routed to my pair of 80 gb sata drives i have setup in raid 1. i just wanted to knwo if i needed to do anything special to my system in order to ghost it from raid 0 and have it recreated in the same configuration. Nothinman pretty much told me what i needed to know.

Thanks guys. i'll be ghosting tonite 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
As for drive failures with Raid 0, well yeah, you lose your data, but the same could be said for any standalone drive that goes t*ts up.

Backups are still important regardless of any type of Raid or single drive setups.
Click to expand...

The difference is that you now have double (or higher) the chance of losing all of your data and potentially double (or higher) the data to lose. And the more drives you put into the array the higher a chance that one of them will fail and take all of your data with it.
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Obviously, but like I said, backups are important.
 
Originally posted by: Canterwood
As for drive failures with Raid 0, well yeah, you lose your data, but the same could be said for any standalone drive that goes t*ts up.Backups are still important regardless of any type of Raid or single drive setups.
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Yeah - but with a RAID 0 array of more than one drive, the failure of either loses everything on BOTH - probably data, OS and programs.

The beauty of RAID is mirroring - and that is only achieved with 1 on up.

I use RAID 0, but only with a single drive - and the only reason I use it is because I accidentally ordered a SATA drive and wanted then to try it. Unfortunately, on my old P4PE mobo, RAID and SATA are linked, and I can't have one without the other. So, we just grin and bear it. It really doesn't bring anything to the party to justify its existence except being able to use a SATA drive.

Agree on backup. I find the best backup is planned redundancy - e.g., a cloned drive ready to go at the push of a button or flick of a switch.
 
i forgot to mention that my drives are all sata drives. seems they have problems with ghost 2003 am i correct in taht statement? i keep googling for more info but i am failing to find something useful.
 
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