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Acronis - Server Edition
Hi Everyone
I am experimenting with Acronis True Image Echo Server edition.
My initial set up was as follows - 2 hot swappable SCSI drives set up with RAID 0 on an HP server and it was in this set up that I took the Acronis image on to an external USB drive (tib files.)
I wanted to test if the image had worked WITHOUT replacing my original set up so on another computer (a lower spec workstation) I restored the image from the external USB drive on to a SATA drive. This took 2 hours and worked OK.
Being a pessimist, I thought I would also double-check by restoring the image on to the original setup - the HP server with the 2 hot swappable SCSI drives set up with RAID 0.
I was expecting this to be a bit quicker because of the speed of the SCSI drives - but it took almost 11 hours.
Does anyone know why?
Do you think Acronis is less efficient at copying to RAID arrays?
Thanks for your help.
Thomas
I am experimenting with Acronis True Image Echo Server edition.
My initial set up was as follows - 2 hot swappable SCSI drives set up with RAID 0 on an HP server and it was in this set up that I took the Acronis image on to an external USB drive (tib files.)
I wanted to test if the image had worked WITHOUT replacing my original set up so on another computer (a lower spec workstation) I restored the image from the external USB drive on to a SATA drive. This took 2 hours and worked OK.
Being a pessimist, I thought I would also double-check by restoring the image on to the original setup - the HP server with the 2 hot swappable SCSI drives set up with RAID 0.
I was expecting this to be a bit quicker because of the speed of the SCSI drives - but it took almost 11 hours.
Does anyone know why?
Do you think Acronis is less efficient at copying to RAID arrays?
Thanks for your help.
Thomas
Don S.
If you have a lower end HP server ml110 or ml310 with the built in raid controllers, then my experience is these servers are dog slow - especially in disk writes. It's even worse with SATA drives.
Acronis does not support fake RAID.
If those are not real hardware RAID controllers (have a co processor),then it's not worth the effort.
Ones like the ich from Intel are exceptionally bad when it comes to this.
If those are not real hardware RAID controllers (have a co processor),then it's not worth the effort.
Ones like the ich from Intel are exceptionally bad when it comes to this.
I remember the Acronics enterprise edition with an univeral restore option should able to restore the image on a different hardware environment.
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