carrelc Posted December 10, 2006 Report Share Posted December 10, 2006 This question seems too simple, but can someone tell me if Retrospect 7.5 supports backup of RAID 0 (2 drives)? The status indicator concerns me because it leads me to believe it's viewing the RAID Volume as two separate drives. Status shows the following... Immediate Backup Copying Local Disk (C:)... Source Local Disk (C:), 1 of 2 Destination Backup A Retrospect appears to behaving normally, it just bothers me that the source indicates disk 1 of 2. Questions: 1) Will I have a usable backup? 2) Can I expect to use disaster recovery to reimage the entire RAID volume? or will I need to reinstall the O/S, and then restore the backup. 3) If question 2 is true, should I use the duplicate command and not the backup command to simplify restoring the system. Installing all of my applications and data is about a 6-8 hour process when done over the network and using installation CDs. I am hoping to be able to restore from an external SATA drive connected built into the motherboard. I am running WinXP Pro SP2 with all the latest updates 2 WD 500GB SATA 3.0GBs in a RAID 0 Configuration. Using 320GB of 1000GB capacity (backup source) 1 WD 500 GB SATA external driver (backup destination) Any feedback or suggestions is welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonaldL Posted December 12, 2006 Report Share Posted December 12, 2006 Retrospect sees volumes at the logical level so it should see the two raided drives as a single volume. If you look in the operations log, what does it say volume 2 of 2 is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelenko Posted December 13, 2006 Report Share Posted December 13, 2006 Quote: 1) Will I have a usable backup? 2) Can I expect to use disaster recovery to reimage the entire RAID volume? or will I need to reinstall the O/S, and then restore the backup. 3) If question 2 is true, should I use the duplicate command and not the backup command to simplify restoring the system. I've used Retro with a RAID 0 system drive using the built in RAID drivers on a couple different motherboards. The backups created have always been complete backups. FWIW, haven't seen the Souce 1/2 notation. Any chance you've included the external drive also in your 'sources'? For one of the motherboards, I was able to create a DR CD that would successfully install the necessary drivers so Retro would see the RAID 0 volume. For the other motherboard, I had to reinstall the OS, install Retro, then restore. This second option worked with no problems. My First Law of Backup is all backups don't work until tested => you gotta test to confirm. HTH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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