ATI 2011 Windows 7 RAID support?

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Anything special I need to know in imaging and restoring images in Windows 7 64 bit system with RAID 1 drives?

I would like to image a RAID1 drive to a single drive for backups and restore when needed.

Would I do this using a ATI2011 boot CD? or in GUI mode?

Details:
My new Win 7 64 bit system will have:
C: Windows installation: a 64 GB SSD
D: Programs and data: (1 TB x 2) RAID1 (capacity = 1 TB)
E: 2 TB single drive (this could be an external e-SATA as well) to store my backups and images
Z: Media storage: NAS (2 TB RAID1)

I need to backup images of C (SSD) and D (RAID1) on to E (single large drive, internal or external). The RAID1 is supported on my motherboard (Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5).

Can I do that easily with ATI2011? Can it image to and/or restore to RAID drives easily?

Thanks.
Aloke

Gio, 11/25/2010 - 15:46
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Hello Aloke!

Thank you for finding time to raise this questions, and open the thread for it. I will be glad to address your concern.

The official support scheme for RAID configuration in Acronis True Image Home products is the following:

  • Acronis True Image Home supports hardware RAID arrays of all the popular types both with and without the Plus Pack add-on, in any case. Thus, the supported hardware RAIDs are:
    • RAID 0
    • RAID 1
    • RAID 5
    • RAID 0+1
    • RAID 1+0

      As to specific RAID controllers - when running the product in Windows, the product will support them if Windows itself does. From Acronis Bootable Media most of the RAID controllers are supported.

  • Acronis True Image Home does not support software RAID implementations (Windows Dynamic Disks, GPT volumes etc) if Plus Pack is not installed. See also Acronis True Image Home Does Not Support Dynamic Disks or Disks with GUID Partition Tables (GPT);
  • Acronis True Image Home Plus Pack enables the support for Windows Dynamic Disks and GPT volumes that are set up in any configuration except for RAID 5 and RAID 1 (Mirrored) which are not supported even with Plus Pack. See also Acronis True Image Home Plus Pack: Dynamic Disks and Disks with GUID Partition Tables (GPT) Support.

Please find more details in this KB article.

Should you need anything else or have any further questions - feel free to contact us at your earliest convenience, we will be happy to help you!

Thank you!

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Yana, I have seen a number of Acronis pages indicating that ATIH with Plus Pack supports software RAID0, including Windows 7 software RAID. What I have not seen is instructions on how to do it. I have an ATIH image of a Win7 installation. I want to restore it to a Win7 software RAID0 array. Can you please tell me how to do that? Thanks in advance ....

Dom, 01/09/2011 - 23:19
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Cheers Ray.

First of all I'd like to apologise for hijacking your thread but I'm sort of in the same boat with a related problem.

Having a Mini-ITX, tiny (but depravedly fast box) I haven't got an option for a RAID supporting MB, so I was thinking of giving Software RAID a spin since most of the latest reviews I've crossed, favour it against a hardware solution.

I already have my Windows7 64bit on a 60GB OCZ Vertex 2 SSD and I was thinking of buying another one for RAID 0 since they are pretty accessible now. I planned to use that (Software) RAID 0 for the Windows 7 partition. For a fact I know that halving the writes on the SSDs will extend it's life by 2X with the benefit of also doubling it's speed. :)

Since I'm a regular system backup freak, my question is: Will ATIH (Plus) backup/recover the System Partition when it's on a Software RAID? 

Looking at the feature set it hints that it does, but it doesn't mention if it's possible "even if it is the boot/system partition". Do you/anyone have an answer?

I've followed some of your posts and I'm curious why you are pushing the restore unRAIDED image to a RAIDed disk. Have you considered using Windows Disk Management to strip disk #1 to disks #1 & #2 and then resume a regular backup policy afterwards?

If it doesn't work then you can still take out #2 and restore the backup you had before the stripping! 

Why haven't you considered doing a fresh OS install? Software License transferring hassle?

TIA,

Duarte Bruno

Gio, 01/13/2011 - 12:08
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If you mean you posted here and also at my blog, no problem. Haven't heard anything back from Acronis on this. Meanwhile, the updated post is at http://raywoodcockslatest.blogspot.com/2011/01/acronis-true-image-home-…

Cheers!

Ven, 01/14/2011 - 01:18