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Which version of Acronis Software do I need

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I have an older machine running 1 boot disk of 80 gb and 3 1TB disks for storage of backed up files. Recently I ran out of space and added an additional 1 TB drive. That drive is failing slowly. Delayed Write Failure. I received a replacement drive today. Does anyone have a suggestion as to which version of True Image I need to be able clone the data from the failing drive, in this case #4, to a new drive?

Specifics:
Hardware
Intel D865GBF logic board
Western Digital 80 GB boot disk
SuperMicro 8 port SATA controller
Drives 0 - 3 in the array are Western Digital 1 Tb in size

Software
XP Pro SP3
Spanned volume of 4 1 TB drives for a total of approximately 3.9 TB
Servers are running XP Backup utility writing to the shared volume.

Thanks,

Bob

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Bob Haag wrote:
which version of True Image I need to be able clone the data from the failing drive, in this case #4, to a new drive?

As this is just a data storage drive, not an OS drive, you don't need to clone or image. And, since the drive is failing, you may well be unable to clone or image it anyway.

I would use a file-based backup tool to copy contents of the old drive to the new drive. If it were me, I'd use Robocopy, but many such tools would suffice.

Tuttle,

I appreciate your response to my query. My goal in this operation is to maintain the data that is on the spanned volume. If a physical disk is removed from the volume, being not fault tolerant, the volume will collapse and all data will be lost. That is why I need to make an exact copy of the data on disk 3 to a new disk so when the system is back on-line XP will not notice the changed disc.

Thanks,

Bob

This can be achieved via a Backup, followed by a Restore to a replacement disk if the original fails. Backup has many advantages over Cloning, including that you may store many backups of various dates to a single drive, whereas a clone by definition uses an entire disk.