Skip to main content

Need Help Imaging server 2003 (with new RAID card)

Thread needs solution

I need to image server 2003 which is currently installed on a SCSI raid array. The SCSI drives have ran out of room and I am replacing the SCSI RAID card with a SATA RAID card with SATA drives. After I create the image and install the new RAID card with the new drives how do I get the Acronis to see the RAID card and the drives

0 Users found this helpful

i have a syba PCI  sy-sa3512-2r raid card SATA. Will this work if not please suggest me a PCI RAID card to buy

Brian:

If you can install the RAID drivers to your disk BEFORE creating the image, then you should be able to restore. Sometimes you may need to physically install the new hardware, create an empty, unformatted array, and then let Windows install the driver for the new array. The important step is to be sure that your image contains the RAID driver for the new RAID card, otherwise Windows will bluescreen when starting up with only the new array connected. You should also test boot the PC from the Acronis recovery CD after installing the new hardware and verify that the Acronis Recovery Environment can see your new RAID array as a single disk. The recovery CD is Linux-based, and this step would verify that the correct Linux drivers are contained in the Recovery CD. If both of these steps work then the recovery should succeed.

ok i just installed the RAID card, turned on the server and logged into windows server 2003, installed the RAID card drivers, and restarted the server. I went into the SATA RAID card utilities and created a RAID 1 with the two new SATA drives. I am now going to boot to the Acronis CD and image the old RAID. Then if everything goes well but the image on the new RAID

That's also a possibility. If you do, just be sure to shut down after the clone completes. Disconnect the original disk(s) before booting to the new array. Otherwise, Windows will not like having two identical disks or arrays present and will modify one of them by changing its Disk Signature. The same comment applies for imaging, BTW.

I prefer the imaging method in that it presents fewer opportunities for screw-ups. After you create the image you can disconnect the original disk(s) and put them aside for safe keeping. Then there is no opportunity for the originals to be modified.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

 

 

I did a clone from the SCSI raid drives to the SATA RAID drives, shut down the PC, disconnected the PCI RAID card and SCSI drives and booted up into the SATA RAID drives. worked great much quicker then doing the image to a external HD then back to the new drives too.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

 

 

I did a clone from the SCSI raid drives to the SATA RAID drives, shut down the PC, disconnected the PCI RAID card and SCSI drives and booted up into the SATA RAID drives. worked great much quicker then doing the image to a external HD then back to the new drives too.