Those of you with raid arrays how do you back them up?

chiptouz

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All,

If you are using a raid array how do you back them up? What program, hardware, etc. Please share your knowledge with a noob.

Thank you,

Chip
 
Most any backup software should be able to handle raid, at least on the backup side. Restoring, on the other hand, can be a problem since some older backup software can't detect a RAID to restore to.

I use Acronis True Image Home to make backups. I used to have a RAID 1 and it had no problems backing up or restoring to RAID.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

If you are looking for free software, you might want to try Reflect. I haven't tried it on a RAID, but you can try a test run of it.

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
 

Branden

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i backup my most important and unreplaceable files on my 3tb raid5 drive to a 1tb raid1 nas box using syncback.

the nas i use is the dlink dns-323, it's slow and unsuitable for using as a network drive but works fine as place to automatically backup files to nightly.