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Restore raid 5 to raid 10

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I have HP E200I RAID controller configured as RAID 5. It has 2 logical drives. I want to reconfigure to RAID 10 as 1 (or 2) logical drives. This array contains Window Server 2008.
1) Can I use Acronis to image data from RAID 5 to RAID 10?
2) Can I change from 2 logical drives to 1, or must it remain as 2 logical drives? If 2, is it crucial that newly created logical drives are in the RAID 10 be EXACTLY sized as they were in the prior Raid 5?
3) By restoring the image, will the complete OS and programs be fully usable upon the restore?

Any tips and guidance is greatly appreciated.

Doug Perkinson

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Typically it shouldn't be an issue to restore since you stay with the same disk controller. You don't need to have the new target of the same size as the original target. ATI will scale the partitions to make it fit. Sometimes, you don't want ATI to change the size of hidden partitions (ATI handles the system reserver partition well, but some other hidden partitions like recovery partitions shouldn't be changed at all). If your system has some of these, let us know.

Pat,
I am comparing the editions, and it appears that ATI 2014 does not support Server 2008. Do I need to purchase Backup and Restore 11.5 instead?

I guess Im am still confused regarding the logical drives. My current RAID 5 is set with 2 Logical drives, and Windows recognizes those ate drives C & E. I then blow away the RAID 5 and Create a new RAID 10. I asusm I must again create 2 Logical drives, as that is what Windows is expecting when I bare-mtal restore the prior image.

I am a newbie when it comes to disk image restore, so please excuse my ignorance.

Doug P

Yep. I didn't catch the Windows Server 2008 thing. Not an application for ATI.

You have a raid with 2 partitions and you mount these as volumes C & E. Regardless of the RAID setting, you have to decide what you will do with your partitions. If only the C:\ partition contains system or OS itemns, and D:\ content, for example, you can restore C:\ only an get a bootable system, then copy your content from D:\ to C:\ if you wanted to merge the 2. Depends on what you are trying to do. But the treatment of your partitioning strategy is not linke to your physical configuration.