Re: creating a disk image of a hardware raid
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 12:38 pm, anoop aryal wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 February 2006 11:30 am, listrcv wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I´m looking for a kind of rescue CD I can boot from to create an image
> > of the contents of partitions residing on a hardware RAID (3ware 7500-4)
> > --- or to create an image of the whole RAID. The image(s) could be
> > stored on a disk connected to the IDE port of the board (independent of
> > the RAID controller) or transfered to a file server on the network.
>
> the RAID should be transparent to whatever backs it up. i.e. the hardware
> (3ware card in this case) only presents a single drive (or whatever the
> RAID level is) to the OS and consequently the backup software. it's up to
> you to restore (when and if you need to restore) to whatever (hardware)
> RAID you want.
>
> > The image(s) should serve as a backup copy from which the system can be
> > easily restored. It is only needed as a one-time backup to be made
> > before doing a dist-upgrade of the system.
> >
> > Any recommendations are greatly appreciated.
>
> 'mondo' might be what you're looking for.
Symantec Ghost would also work for such a task... it's commercial but if you
have it, it works great.
Joe
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