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SCSI drive utility for copying drives

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JoeCooLIT

IS-IT--Management
Sep 26, 2002
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I want to upgrade my overstuffed SCSI drive to a larger one by using a utility to make a copy of all the partitions onto a larger drive, but I do not want to lose anything in the process (i want it to boot up as the replacement). Is there a utility similar to Norton Ghost that will work on a SCSI drive server?? Everything I have researched indicates that this doesnt always work, depending on the utility and the hardware.... Is there anything out there to do this?? I cant be the first one to be asking this question! Any suggestions or shared experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
 
I have sucessfully used Norton Ghost for this on many of my Dell Servers. I have never tried it on a RAID array though. But I have used it to copy multi-partition disks to larger drives for both Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000. If you are using Linux Ghost doesn't ever seem to work right. The good thing with Ghost is it doesn't hurt to try, you always have the original hard disk if the copy process fails.
I used a boot disk with Ghost 7.0 on it, I have also had success with Ghost 2002.
 
Thanks I used Ghost 2003, which does support NTFS now and it worked beautifully.
 
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