Disaster Recovery Fails on RAID - HELP

[DebiJo]

I have a server that was running RAID, at least before it crashed. (I've got to find some humor somewhere.
We configured the RAID and went through the Disaster Recovery process, using Arcserve DR SP4. Everything was going fine, it found the NIC, it made us reboot many, many times. Then it came up with an invalid disk confgiuration and something about no boot disk. Now the server won't get past this. We can't do anything, except start over. Before I do that, does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,
Debi

 

[Cyklops]

Could this have anything to do with loading the drivers for the RAID Controller ( when the setup screen is loading drivers for CD rom specify the option S to load additional drivers ) ??

just a thought

 

[cdav]

DebiJo,
I assume you are talking about RAID5 - if not please ignore.
Is it your C: drive on the Raid set that you are trying to restore? If so, we have come across a similar problem on NT4. When you delete and recreate the C: drive during the DR, it leaves 8 Mb of 'odd' space in front of the C: drive, and then tells you that it can't find a boot disk. That's because the C: drive isn't where the system expects it to be.
I hate to tell you, but the only way we've got around this when all of our drives are across a RAID5 set, we've had to DR the complete machine ie delete all drives and DR from scratch. It then puts the C: drive at the beginning of the RAID set, instead of offsetting by 8Mb.
It's not difficult but, depending on the amount of data, can be time consuming.
Hope this helps, cdav ;-)

 

[ARCserveGuru]

Hi Debi.
All you have to do is recreate your RAID config and partitions with the third party software that came with the server and helped you setup RAID in the first place (don't bother formatting), and then start the DR process.

cheers

g