Which version of Acronis Software do I need
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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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
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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.
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