Clonezilla Software Raid 0 Xp
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- Want to clone win xp 64 from ide to raid 0; Can't find. You can't use MS software RAID 0. Use Clonezilla to clone your failed RAID's HDD members the RAID.
I don't think I'd recommend Clonezilla for a server backup for two reasons: 1) You can't restore the image to a smaller drive, and we're talking total drive size, not free space. If you had a 2TB partition that failed with only 512GB in use you'd need to restore to at least a 2TB partition.
All the discussions I've seen about shrinking an image were pretty complicated, so I never bothered to try. It's certainly something I would expect to be easily done in a panic. 2) It's also not always 'easy' to mount a Clonezilla image if you want to get a few files off. What is considered 'easy', of course, changes with how familiar you are with a Linux command line and if you don't mind a little Google research and trial and error.
These limitations aren't a huge deal in a lot of workstation cloning situations, but in a server backup situation it may not be what you want. It all depends on if Clonezilla has the proper RAID driver for your hardware or not. If it does, then it will pick up the RAID array as a single drive, and you're probably good to go. If it doesn't have the right RAID driver, then you're in a fuzzier area, and it will most likely see your drives as raw disks without any partition info (depending on the vendor implementation, I've seen cheap pseudo RAID 1 drives show up as two identical stand alone drives). You can always take a full image of the raw disks, (you'll end up copying every byte on the drive though, even free space) and then write that image to another disk, and when you load your OS, the driver should pick up the RAID info, but this is a much iffier method, and as everyone else has mentioned, you need to restore on same size or bigger drives, and would need to rebuild the RAID 1 after you inster. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences! At this point, I just need to take an image of my Dell M710 HD server blade and I do not want to spent money on expensive imaging software.
The reason being, even if I buy a very expensive software, I won't be able to test the image in a non-destructive manner ( I do not want to restore it to the same production server and test it,). RAID'ed volume is only 600 GB and I can always restore it to a bigger volume in case of any disaster in the future. It looks like my real challenge is whether Clonezilla is going to pick up the RAID controller driver or not, correct? I will try it next week and let you know how did it go?
I have a not-so-recent HP desktop PC (model# m9510f, Q8200 CPU - I think it was manufactured in early 2009 sometime, because it still had Vista 64-bit). I've set it up with a pair of 500GB drives that I want to run in RAID0 striped mode (for higher performance and lower reliability). I've successfully setup the RAID in the BIOS, and it is recognized at boot time. Only problem is, Clonezilla won't recognize the RAID0, so I can't very well restore the OS.
I could just reinstall from the recovery disks, but then I suppose I also won't be able to make Clonezilla backups either. Clonezilla only sees the individual drives. What's the best way to get around this issue?
Clonezilla doesn't support software-based or firmware-based (aka 'FakeRAID') arrays. From what I understand your HP system has an Asus-made MB in it with an Intel ICH9R chipset. If you used that to make your RAID 0 then Clonezilla can't do anything with it.
From their (under 'Limitations'): Software RAID/fake RAID is not supported by default. From their: Q: Does Clonezilla support RAID? A: Clonezilla does support hardware RAID, if your RAID device is seen as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/cciss/c0d0. On GNU/Linux. Clonezilla does support this. On the other hand, if it's Linux software RAID, no, Clonezilla does not support that.
See for a recent Clonezilla forum thread about using it (or rather, NOT using it) with firmware-based arrays. Can't help you with Clonezilla as it appears from the previous poster that it simply will not work. If that's the case, use something else. Want free (as in no license fee)? Then you can use Microsoft's ImageX program.
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Image your old system with that to an external drive, then restore it. ImageX is a command line tool that is freely available within the Windows Automated Installation Kit.
Using that kit, you can (if necessary) create a WinPE boot DVD that includes imagex and the drivers for your RAID controller. If windows can see the drive as you want it, you can deploy the image (note: if your Vista install (or whatever version of Windows you use) doesn't have the appropriate drivers for the RAID controller IN windows, then it may not boot at all - it would be wise to install the drivers BEFORE making the image). There could still be other issues - a possible need to make the drive partition 'active'. But the imaging part of the problem should be solved with this solution. During my Google search for this problem, I saw a post that I thought was interesting, and worked for me when I tried it. (Caution: this only works for RAID 1 and possibly RAID 10).
Unplug one of the drives. Then boot clonezilla. The RAID array will be 'degraded'. Then restore the image to the active drive, shutdown, plug the drive back in, and the array will rebuild.
I'm currently watching a copy I just made this way and it seems to have worked great. The trick is that, since this is software RAID, the RAID info is stored on the drive.
I only restored the partition, not the full drive, and I left the MBR as is (using the clonezilla advanced options). Make a comment if other options worked for you.
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Edit: I'm testing with a Dell Precision 390, with the Intel Matrix RAID built into the motherboard. You can manually activate RAID support in Clonezilla. YMMV on success. The clonezilla image must have kpartx and dmraid as well as the necessary modules. Running 'dmraid -ay' should activate all the RAID arrays if your array is MBR-formatted.
This is usually not the case for UEFI machines which are GPT-formatted, you need to add the command 'kpartx -a' after running dmraid to activate GPT arrays. Once activated the arrays should be available via /dev/mapper However, even after RAID is activated, you need to manage the backups or restoration manually. This means it's up to you to issue the backup command from command prompt.
Clonezilla does not allow selecting volumes from /dev/mapper, but it's not an issue if you call the backup command like partimage and point it at the volume directly. You will also need to backup the disk parameters, that should be doable using gdisk.