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noon0
07-18-07, 09:06 AM
Hello All!

Just wondering if anybody has actually done this before, OR knows for sure it will work.

I have a hardware RAID-5 array using 3ware controller. Being that my paranioa level is at an all-time high, I would like to be able to ghost an image of the contents of the array into another hard drive (I realize the image would/could be up to 500GB, so would need a whole seperate drive instead of 10s of DVDs).. .. so, Norton Ghost 12? an Acronis True Image product?

Thanks for your input.

skibell
07-18-07, 06:25 PM
Hello All!

Just wondering if anybody has actually done this before, OR knows for sure it will work.

I have a hardware RAID-5 array using 3ware controller. Being that my paranioa level is at an all-time high, I would like to be able to ghost an image of the contents of the array into another hard drive (I realize the image would/could be up to 500GB, so would need a whole seperate drive instead of 10s of DVDs).. .. so, Norton Ghost 12? an Acronis True Image product?

Thanks for your input.

Make a search on symantec for "ghost switches" or "ghost raid5" I know my version (8) does not work with ghost, meaning I have to break the RAID, but there could be a new switch for version 12.