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Ghosting RAID 5 Configuration

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by sysadminii

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I have worked with Ghost for some time now and really don't have a complaint with it, except dealing with RAID 5. Symantec doesn't tell you that you can't ghost RAID 5 but they don't offer support for it either. I have been able to ghost RAID 5 but the restoration has been another story. It seems that when I try and restore the image, I receive CRC32 errors and never successfully restore my image to the RAID 5 drive. I have tried a multitude of switch configurations, but it doesn't seem to matter. Has anyone ever successfully restored a RAID 5 configuration from a Ghost image and if so, how were they able to accomplish it and what switches did they use?

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by p.j.hutchison

Personnally I would use NTBackup and use the Aiutomated System Recovery Wizard if you wish to restore Windows from scratch esp those using RAID.
Forget using Ghost.

by ttibbenham

I have my A-D domain controller C: drive on a RAID5 cluster that has a failed HDU.
I had forgotten about NTBackup until this reminder but have now got an NTBackup + ASR floppy.
I also took a Driveimage XML backup.
We should be able to replace the failed drive without needing the backups but it is good to have some quicker recovery options than rebuilding our domain controller from scratch
We backup the server nightly to tape but would be 50% through rebuilding it ( load OS, then tape software .. ) before recovering from tape.

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