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Can I Ghost clone on raid volume ?

I have a dell 4400 machine and one with raid 5 and raid 2 volume(hardware raid). I was told there are some data stored in raid controller and thus i can't use ghost to successfully restore the image. I am not clear about 'why' there data store in raid controller . can anyone briefly explain to me or point me to the right source?

PUNKY

Why not? Norton Ghost, Arconis True Image, etc. support to image RAID.

stock99

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i am not exactly sure. But i was told by dell tech support that if i do a clone on hardware raid volume it can't be recovered from image like non-raid volume. He told me the reason is that there are data stored in controller. I would like to find out more about it, but not sure where to start. wiki raid doesn't give me much more details on this aspect.

PUNKY

If you used image to an identical or same system, forget what Dell Tech said. For what I understand, if raid is hardware raid, and drives can be accessed from DOS, then you have no problem. I am not sure about software raid, since OS creating stripe and DOS can not access it. See link below for more infor:

http://entkb.symantec.com/security/output/n1999010613522725.html
http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_1a.htm

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PUNKY

I see the point now. Thanks Scrathcyboy.