RAID restoration

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I have Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 (11.0.17318) on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise system.

The system in question has a RAID0 configuration (2 HDD's).
The bootable drive is an SSD as my C:\ and the RAID0 is E:\ which has all the users/documents and programs are installed.

I see in the event log that once in a while, there is a controller error somewhere - I am guessing either one of the drives is having a problem or the controller on the motherboard is failing. I dont think there is a way to check this for sure.

So, I have backed up the RAID drive as a full backup.

Moving forward, what is the best way to restore this backup onto a new pair of HDD's for the RAID drive replacements?

After connecting the 2 new RAID drives into the system and configuring them as RAID through the onboard controller, what is the next step to restore the image?

lun 08/10/2012 - 02:51
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As it's a non-system disk, you just run Backup & Recovery as usual and restore the backup to E: disk, creating a new volume on it by the means of Windows or during recovery process. However if Backup & Recovery itself(*) was installed on E: too, you need to use bootable media - first try the linux-based, (download ISO file from your Acronis account or create it using media builder). If linux-based doesn't recognize the RAID controller, create WinPE-based, adding drivers (32-bit!) for RAID and network card.

(*) filter drivers such as fltsrv are installed in windows\system32\drivers folder in either case, so the system will boot in this case.

lun 08/10/2012 - 03:05