Imaging software for a Dell Perc5i SAS controller

[Hodders]

We've just discovered that our copy of Acronis True Image won't see the dell perc 5/i controller and we need to take a drive image. It also appears from the acronis forums that the latest copy doesnt either.....

Has anyone got any suggestions of software (linux boot disks/commercial software) that will let us do this ?

Cheers guys !

 

[Hodders]

It appears that the latest version of true image home does work with the perc5/i ! All be it very slowly (must be in some basic IO mode or something) !

 

[Slinwagh]

Of the top of my head i would say Ghost.

Im pretty sure that you can include the drivers for the controller on a boot disk and them image the disk.

 

[Hodders]

Problem is that ghost gets all stroopy (unless it has changed recently) when you try to image 'server oses' even though the filesystem is identical (crippleware by any other name) - Acronis is far more reasonable in this respect (you can't do 'live' images, but you can do cold imaging of a server os).