which imaging package will work

TFC

I was curious about this myself, I have two servers one an old gaming pc with a couple of sata drives and an adaptec sata controller, the other a "real" server dual core PIII 933's with 4x 9.1 SCSI drives in raid 5.

As I've said before in previous posts I do not see the point in backing up the whole operating system, as I use freeBSD on the servers I just backup the data and the samba config file and it takes about 20 minutes to restore the whole lot.

I've just checked with Norton-Symantec GHOST 2003 and my Proliant's, four disk SCSI array, is discovered with no problems. As are the SATA drives on the controller of the other server.

One interesting thing I did note when installing FreeBSD on the dual core proliant was that when I tried to use Parbreastion Magic 8 to erase the drive, I got some error message about not being able to preform operations on a NT4 filesystem.

As for which imaging package will work, I do not see why the normal versions of ghost or true image wont work, however they may be coded like my parbreastion magic and give some error message, and force you to buy the expensive package, I buttume the server editions will have better Controller card support and handle large (TB) disk arrays.

Adapter cards tested were: 64 bit Adaptec-Compaq Smart array 431 Adaptec SATA RAID 1210SA

JD