How to Backup and Restore Mirrored Dynamic Disk?

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I can't seem to get a straight answer, so I'll ask the question here.

I have what I think is a simple setup.

* Two 512mb Crucial M4 SSD's setup as a Mirrored Dynamic Disk in Windows 7 Pro.
* By default, Windows 7 allocates a 100mb partition for the boot, and then the remainder is my C Drive. I mirrored both the 100mb partition and the large one, since I want the second disk to act as a failover if something happens to the first SSD.
* After the drives finished Resync'ing, I booted up into the Acronis ABR Boot CD and made a backup of all the volumes onto an external UDB HD, so I got a total of 4 volumes backed up, two MBR's and Two main volumes (I did not use the sector by sector option).

This is where I'm stuck... On the restore side. I boot the CD onto a new identical system, identical motherboard, SSD's and RAM. During the recovery process, it's unclear if I should setup my disks as a Dynamic Mirror using the disk manager or just do a restore with my two unallocated disks... The options that come up when choosing where to restore don't seem to indicate that I'll get a dynamic mirror when I'm done. I'm just not clear about what to recover and how to setup my new drives on this machine... Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Tue, 03/12/2013 - 18:01
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Hi Dower,
here you can read about how it should be http://www.acronis.com/support/documentation/ABR11.5/index.html#12668.h…
In brief, if you make your target disks dynamic but do not create any volumes, your mirror should be recreated. If the target disks are basic (unallocated), you will get basic volumes. If the target disks have volumes (either basic or dynamic), you will need to choose a suitable target volume for each of the backed up volumes. After the recovery, ABR will check if the system is bootable and fix if necessary. On a fully identical system it has to work.

Tue, 03/12/2013 - 20:10