I have a quick questions about backups and RAID 1. I normally use WD hard drives, and use the free version of Acronis (made for Western Digital drives) to do backups on computers I build (for both work and family) This has always worked great, and I've re-imaged drives from backups without issue.
However my latest build is a Core i5 system, with RAID 1 (mirror), using the on-board Intel RAID controller. Is there a way to back this up so that the system can easily be recovered to the "just-built" state. The WD version of Acronis doesn't support RAID, and I'm gertting soem conflicting info even if the real versions of Acronis support it.
So my solution is to break the RAID, image the drive with Acronis, and then rebuild the RAID. I like this idea because I could theoretically apply the image to any hard drive in the future and (as long as we buy 2 of them) rebuild the array. Seems more flexible this way, but is there any other way to make a backup image of a RAID 1 setup?
However my latest build is a Core i5 system, with RAID 1 (mirror), using the on-board Intel RAID controller. Is there a way to back this up so that the system can easily be recovered to the "just-built" state. The WD version of Acronis doesn't support RAID, and I'm gertting soem conflicting info even if the real versions of Acronis support it.
So my solution is to break the RAID, image the drive with Acronis, and then rebuild the RAID. I like this idea because I could theoretically apply the image to any hard drive in the future and (as long as we buy 2 of them) rebuild the array. Seems more flexible this way, but is there any other way to make a backup image of a RAID 1 setup?