HP B120i RAID controller seen as separate drives
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We have some HP ML310 Gen8 servers with B120i RAID controllers. Neither the current standard nor alternative versions of Clonezilla sees the drives as a single RAID; they are seen as identical drives sda(1..7) and sdb(1..7). (Yes, there are quite a lot of partitions!)
Is there a way to insert drivers for the RAID controller, for example by dropping to the command line or by adding HP's drivers to the disc image? If so, we would be happy to try.
It's worth mentioning that Acronis also sees the drives separately.
We need to image and restore complete machines as we test software. We don't need to do anything more subtle or fine-grained.
Dave
Do you know if any GNU/Linux distribution support that?
If so, then there is a chance Clonezilla live should work.
Steven.
Hi,
I fell upon this thread when trying (successfully) to backup a source 160GB RAID0 drive (1 logical of 1 physical drive (Windows 2008)) to a 500GB RAID1 drive (1 logical of 2 physical 500GB drives) on a HP B110i RAID controller.
My problem was that Clonezilla saw two 500GB disk (the physical ones) and not 1 (the logical one). I tried a device-device copy on the disk level (not the partition level) and did 2 copies: one from source to the first of the 500GB drives and a second from source to the second of the 500GB drives. It took my twice the time (30min instead of 15) but it works flawlessly.
Honestly I never thought that it worked and was a bit desperated when I saw 2 destination disks instead of one but I said "what the hell" and tried it anyway!
Jonas
@Jonas,
Looks like your RAID configuration is RAID 1, then yes, your method should work, as mentioned here:
http://drbl.org/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/95_workaround_for_RAID_1.faq#95_workaround_for_RAID_1.faq
Steven.