Raid question...can I ghost a raid partition to another single drive?

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 8:15 am

Just did my first raid setup last week and I have a raid 0 partition of two 40gb hard drives that I may switch to a single 80gb using ghost, can I do this? Considering going back to a single drive or maybe upgrading the raid partition to two 80's.

My OS is on the raid partition and is ntfs.

Can a raid partition be imaged using ghost for backup?

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 8:57 am

Usually yes. As far as DOS (and Ghost) is concerned, the RAID array appears to be just a single drive.

I've Ghosted both RAID 0 and RAID 1 arrays to single drives with no problems.

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 9:49 am

What he said ^^^.......I've done it ( RAID 0 ) both to and from a single drive. I use Power Quest's Drive Image tho as opposed to Norton Ghost.

Just set up my current RAID 0 config yesterday and copied it over to a single this morning so as to have backup OS install with all the windoze updates and drivers etc. I'm experimenting with some OCing and some various stripe/cluster combinations on this new mobo. So in the event I trash the install, I have a fresh one to toss back on there.

blackhawk · Post by **blackhawk** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 2:00 pm

That's great, thanks guys.

Now, could I ghost the single drive's ghost image back to a new raid partition of 2 x 80gbs skipping the step of transferring the raid image to a single drive?

The second raid would have to be slave and slave to the other raid master and master?

VidmanII · Post by **VidmanII** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 2:13 pm

That I'm not sure about. Now you're talking about imaging arrays with active boot sectors ( Primary ) onto logical partitions? I'll venture that you can't and let someone correct me if I'm wrong.

I guess you could try it and see what prog says when you attempt to do it.

FP? what's your take?

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 7:19 pm

Yes, you can restore a Ghost image to a Raid array irregardless of whether or not it was from a RAID array originally.

Norton & DOS don't care what it was on - the array is transparent to them.

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Tue Nov 04, 2003 7:29 pm

yup. just think of the hardware raid controller as a router for the hard drives. the OS only sees the raid controller and only knows what the controller tells it. just like sharing an internet connection with a router...the outside world doesn't know what you have...they only see the router.

(did that make sense?hehehe)