I don't think I'd recommend Clonezilla for a server backup for two reasons: 1) You can't restore the image to a smaller drive, and we're talking total drive size, not free space. Bmw Tis Free Deutsche. If you had a 2TB partition that failed with only 512GB in use you'd need to restore to at least a 2TB partition. All the discussions I've seen about shrinking an image were pretty complicated, so I never bothered to try. It's certainly something I would expect to be easily done in a panic.

2) It's also not always 'easy' to mount a Clonezilla image if you want to get a few files off. What is considered 'easy', of course, changes with how familiar you are with a Linux command line and if you don't mind a little Google research and trial and error.

These limitations aren't a huge deal in a lot of workstation cloning situations, but in a server backup situation it may not be what you want. It all depends on if Clonezilla has the proper RAID driver for your hardware or not. If it does, then it will pick up the RAID array as a single drive, and you're probably good to go.

If it doesn't have the right RAID driver, then you're in a fuzzier area, and it will most likely see your drives as raw disks without any partition info (depending on the vendor implementation, I've seen cheap pseudo RAID 1 drives show up as two identical stand alone drives). You can always take a full image of the raw disks, (you'll end up copying every byte on the drive though, even free space) and then write that image to another disk, and when you load your OS, the driver should pick up the RAID info, but this is a much iffier method, and as everyone else has mentioned, you need to restore on same size or bigger drives, and would need to rebuild the RAID 1 after you inster. Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences! At this point, I just need to take an image of my Dell M710 HD server blade and I do not want to spent money on expensive imaging software. The reason being, even if I buy a very expensive software, I won't be able to test the image in a non-destructive manner ( I do not want to restore it to the same production server and test it,). RAID'ed volume is only 600 GB and I can always restore it to a bigger volume in case of any disaster in the future. It looks like my real challenge is whether Clonezilla is going to pick up the RAID controller driver or not, correct?

Overclock.net › Forums › Components › Hard Drives & Storage › disk image software that will work with raid? In raid 0 through ICH10R. Clonezilla shows. I'm running Western Digital Raptors 150GB in RAID 0. CPU Motherboard. Cloning RAID 0 array to 1TB external w/ Clonezilla.

I will try it next week and let you know how did it go?

I am looking for recommendations for a disk image utility that will let me successfully image and restore partitions on the following setup. I have a 640gb Western Digital Black and a 750gb Western Digital black together in raid 0 through ICH10R controller on asus p6t deluxe v2. (the reason for the 750gb is the second 640gb I had failed, and that's what WD advanced rma sent me) On this I have 3 separate partitions (for OS, applications, and storage). I'm looking for a program to occasionally image and restore each partition instead of completely starting from scratch. I also plan to use said program (if it exists) to image friends / family's pcs from fresh install with all the updates, their apps, etc., so when they call me with viruses, slow pc, or something else screwed up, I can just go restore the image and not spend hours on hours troubleshooting.