Raid 0 backup/restore solutions

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Tue, 05/18/2010 - 23:30
Metal Militia
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I'm preparing to go Raid 0 with two Samsung Spinpoint F3 500GB HDD.

Will a "normal" disc image backup work for restoring a failed drive or corrupted data?
I use three different solutions Acronis True Image, Norton Ghost and Windows Backup & Restore (Windows 7) 

The Raid 0 will only consist of programs, games, docs, music, pictures, etc. I will have a separate 30GB SSD as my OS/Boot drive. Will this hinder any of the backup solutions I listed?

 

I've never built or restored a RAID before so I'm guessing if I need to restore my data or a disk fails I would have to re-setup the raid 0 and the ssd then go about the restoration process for whichever backup solution I decide to restore from?

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Wed, 05/19/2010 - 22:15
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Yes a system image would be fine but you might also want to consider backing up individual files.

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Thu, 05/20/2010 - 11:43
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Metal Militia
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Razear wrote:

Yes a system image would be fine but you might also want to consider backing up individual files.

Ok and I already backup individual critical files and folders for easy restore and as another layer of fault tolerance.

 

Thanks for the feedback!

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