Bart
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One of my SSDs in the raid0 is starting to die.
I have a spare replica drive and just looking to clone the disk (not partition) and swap the drive out like for like.
Everything ive looked at so far (including Acronis) appears to backup/clone the partition and not the disk, block for block.
I.e they only give me the option to clone my C drive which is spanned across the two disks.
Does anyone know any software out there to clone a disk like for like?
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Rob_Quads
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Boot an Ubuntu live cd/usb and then do a dd to copy from disc to disc?
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Bart
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that's feasible.
Looks like there is a UI tool for me to use (really not famillar with Linux commands)
http://www.ubuntugeek.com/gdiskdump-gui-for-diskdump-dd.html
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Steve
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Raid 0'ing two disks that are anywhere close to important is fairly silly.
Either mirror and take the disk space hit, or buy more and raid 5!
Have a look at PING software for the cloning
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Bart
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Steve, it's more for my own laziness right now.
I have a lot going on and would rather just run a copy then spend an evening or 2 reinstalling everything from scratch.
The DD UI tool is nearly done, time will tell.
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Andrew
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Norton Ghost
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Bart
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Cloned successfully but the raid array didn't like it, I guess as the hard drives had different serials
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John
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I've mentioned it before but as Steve says, RAID0 is a terrible idea, even moreso with SSD drives.
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pow
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Why don't you take an image of the ARRAY (as a virtual disk) and put that onto a single disk? Or is it software RAID
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Bart
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
Why don't you take an image of the ARRAY (as a virtual disk) and put that onto a single disk? Or is it software RAID
I did consider that, but I don't have easy access to a disk big enough.
gonna re-install tonight. I've redownloaded all the software ready to go on. Its also a shame there isn't a copy of windows 8.1 with the imminent SP pre-loaded.
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pow
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Service pack already!?
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Richie
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http://www.extremetech.com/computing/175829-windows-8-1-update-1-leaks-boots-to-the-desktop-by-default-allows-metro-apps-to-be-minimized
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pow
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Oh bollocks, do I crack on with my 8.1 deployment or put it off. Or do I just rely on WSUS.
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Richie
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We've just rolled out approx 400 8.1 machines and will be using SCCM 2012 R2 to deploy Update 1
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pow
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SCCM is the devil
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Richie
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Lol I don't disagree. I have no choice as one of our major gov contracts signed up to the full Microsoft schibang.
It's insane how easy it is to kill a few hundred Hyper-V servers using SCVMM 2012 R2 by accident. I've found 1 button that blue screens the fucking lot (approx 250 servers) 
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pow
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I love hyperv but I hate the fact you need to buy an extra piece of software to centrally manage it to the VMware vsphere scale.
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