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How do I restore a ghost image to different drives/partitions of different size?

I have a server with four 300G drives grouped with raid5. There are two partitions on the drive, C and E. I want to image these with ghost and restore them to 2 pairs of raid1 drives that are 600Gig. How do I restore to two different drives and make the partiotions larger?

I tried a simple disk to disk image and restored it to the new drives. The new drives are two pairs of disks, each pair is raid1. After the restore I had four drives (C, D, E, F). and the partitions are the old size. Its like the raid1 config was overwritten. The server is a Dell and the raid1 config looks right. when I boot it says there are two virtual disks recognized. I dont understand why after the restore I see 4 drives...

any help is appreciated.

Paul Solovyovsky

You can use Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery (server version of ghost). Image system and retarget to new location, as part of the process you can resize the volumes. You can try it out with the trial copy.

hueyiii

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I'm running ghost32 from Ghost 11. I'd like to accomplish this without buying new. I'm told this is possible with Ghost 11 but nobody can tell me how.

Paul Solovyovsky

You can download trial of BESR, should be the same way with ghost 11 but last time I checked it wasn't compatible with server

hueyiii

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Are there size restrictions on the eval or is a timed eval? If I can get the job done and it works I may be forced to buy. Currently I have The corporate edition ofSymantec Ghost Solution Suite.

Paul Solovyovsky

no restrictions for what you need. The time restriction is on how long you have to make an image but once the image is made you can restore at any time with the system recovery disk

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