Ghosting a Level 1 RAID

[Aleena]

Hi There,

I am trying to create an image of a Level 1 Raid on an IBM eSeries 330. I need to be able to store the image on the network. When I go to image the drive the screen locks. I know that Ghost does not officially support Ghosting raids and it requires ASPI drivers. We have tried several versions of ASPI drivers and none of them seem to make a difference.

What I want is to be able to boot from a ghost floppy and image the driver on to a server on the network.

Has anyone successfully ghosted a Level 1 raid? What steps did you take to make it successful?

Any advice or input would be greatly appreciated!!

 

[Loewenhaupt]

What kind of RAID controller did you use?

 

[pepeio]

can't you simply remove one of the raid1 drive and ghost that drive on an other machine? this way, you'll not have to stop the server, and have no raid problem is the machine used to backup is not raid enabled.

 

[Bernard74]

If your booting from a Ghost disk you will need the drivers loaded for your RAID controller.

TIP: Alot of people keep the O/S partition on the embeeded non-RAID SCSI controller and only put Data on the Raid Packs.

Upside = easy to recover in the event of O/S coruption or H/W failure.

Downside = NO hardware redundancy on O/S Partition.