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New discs and new controller in SBS2003
My customer is using an SBS2003 with 2 80GB drives as Software Raid 1.
He needs more space, so i bought a 3ware Sata Raid controller and 3 500 GB drives running as a raid5 array. What is the best way to transfer the whole SBS2003 installation from the old raid1 to the new raid5 configuration?
I tried ntbackup, then changed the drives, did a minimum sbs2003 installation on the new drives so that i can restore the backup using ntbackup. But after restoring, it does not boot anymore, because the controller driver or some configuration is probably overwritten. Does anybody know, which files i have to exclude from restore in order to not overwite the 3Ware drivers?
It is now the second weekend where i try, still no success. Help please.
Best regards from Stuttgart, Germany
Harry
He needs more space, so i bought a 3ware Sata Raid controller and 3 500 GB drives running as a raid5 array. What is the best way to transfer the whole SBS2003 installation from the old raid1 to the new raid5 configuration?
I tried ntbackup, then changed the drives, did a minimum sbs2003 installation on the new drives so that i can restore the backup using ntbackup. But after restoring, it does not boot anymore, because the controller driver or some configuration is probably overwritten. Does anybody know, which files i have to exclude from restore in order to not overwite the 3Ware drivers?
It is now the second weekend where i try, still no success. Help please.
Best regards from Stuttgart, Germany
Harry
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Clonezilla is free. Acronis and ghost are the gold standard. I personally use Acronis, switched from ghost a few years ago.
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SBS backup should allow you to restore the backup to the new drives after the drives have been loaded and a new backup created. You may need to feed the restore sequence the drivers for the new controller on the fly before you can complet the restore.
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So one more weekend with a try is over. Still not full success. I could boot from the new diskarray, but the first meassage from SBS 2003 was that it cannot open the AD. May be i had a problem with drive mappings of either drive C: or D: (These are the only logical drives). Has anyone experienced the same problem? I was using ActiveDisk (purchased) and did a disk to disk copy after booting from BOOT CD with all driver installed on the CD.
Any idea how i can avoid these problems ?
Thanks until next weekend..
Harry
Any idea how i can avoid these problems ?
Thanks until next weekend..
Harry
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I'll try it next weekend. Until then they can work with the old 250 GB (sorry, not only 80 GB).
Can you give me a hint for the imaging software? probably freeware?
Thanks, Harry