Re: SBS2003 -Limited space, New HD, GHOST

I just contacted Dell support to ask them about the new HD & Raid
controller, this was there response to doing a mirror/image

"I honestly didn't know SBS came with an option to ghost an image, but I
would say use that and go for it. The only problem is that you will need to
install the driver to the raid controller. And since the raid controller
wont get installed until you have everything backed up in an image, the
correct driver will not be installed when you try to load that image. Which
will result in a blue screen inaccessible boot device"

The driver has to be installed for the raid controller to work. They are
recommending another way instead of ghost/imaging. Backup to tape or
external drive, install OS then restore files. I don't like that option and
it will take much more time. What do you'll suggest?
"Leythos" <void@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <uy36dfyMHHA.4244@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, anthony@xxxxxxxxxxx
says...
Good Morning,

Thanks for the reply Ms. Clark. The 1st hard drive is One drive with two
partitions. The 2nd drive was added maybe 1 or 2 years ago for extra
storage space, a lot of archived data. Actually I begin to think about
what
you said. Since you can only image/ghost 1 hard drive, all I really need
is
to get one new hard drive and image/ghost the 1st hard drive with local C
&
local D drives. I don't need to do that 2nd hard drive. My main problem
is
that there is very little space on my local C and I've almost exhausted
all
options freeing up space. We're about to get a new business software and
I
don't want space to be the problem for the system drive. So If we get a
new
100GB hard drive and image/ghost the 1st hard drive, that should fix the
problem with little space. So please disregard my statement about the
2nd
drive, that's isn't a concern, it's already used primarily for archive
purposes and does not need to be imaged.

With that in mind, what do you recommend for imaging 1 hard drive. Also
do I
have to shut down services in order for the Exchange & SQL files to copy
to
the new hard drive? Please advise. (I hope I didn't confuse you, smile)

Ghost (at least the real Ghost 2003 and before) worked from a boot
diskette and let you clone one drive to another and resize while doing
it.

You do understand that having a server running without mirrored/RAID-5
means that you're going to suffer a complete loss at some point, and
you'll only have your backup solution (if you have one) to recover your
data from?

You need two things:

1) Purchase a RAID controller card
2) Install mirrored drives or RAID 5, to protect you against drive
failure

After the above, you can resize your drives.

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