Imaging or ghosting the RAID 5 hard disks of server software

girmaz01

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i WANT TO HAVE gHOST OR SOME OTHER IMAGING SOFTWARE .I WANT TO TAKE THE WHOLE IMAGE OF RAID 5 CONFIGURED SERVER AND USE IT FOR ANOTHER SERVER CONFIGURED AS RAID 5.SOHELP THE BEST IMAGING SOFTWARE FOR THIS.BECAUSE I DONOT WANT TO INSTALL THE SAME THING FOR MANY SERVERS AGAIN AND AGAIN
 

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In that case you would need a raw image of each disk, which becomes a file of the same size of your disks. The last sector in that file is important, as it contains the RAID configuration metadata.

Ghosting/backups can be made with many windows utilities or opensource linux livecd using a command-line program called "dd".