topic Re: Standalone HDD clone and replacement on DL380 Gen9 in ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

Standalone HDD clone and replacement on DL380 Gen9

Sc23 — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 17:51:13 GMT

Hi! We have DL380 Gen9 server and only one installed standalone HDD (witout any RAID). It's seems like HDD is going to die. Could you help me - how can we clone all information from the HDD to another new HDD and make 100% identical disk to make old Windows OS, Services and Programms running on the new HDD? Thanks!

Re: Standalone HDD clone and replacement on DL380 Gen9

Torsten. — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 18:57:15 GMT

You could add a second disk and convert to a RAID1. But this needs 2 disks.

It will be much better to have this redundancy.

Re: Standalone HDD clone and replacement on DL380 Gen9

Jimmy Vance — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:01:11 GMT

@Torsten. wrote:
You could add a second disk and convert to a RAID1. But this needs 2 disks.
It will be much better to have this redundancy.

I think that depends entirely on what controller and mode the current drive is configured under. If the controller is in HBA mode I don't think you can do RAID without destroying the existing data

Re: Standalone HDD clone and replacement on DL380 Gen9

Torsten. — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 19:11:26 GMT

The SSA tool will tell the mode and you cannot convert a "plain" drive to RAID. Just in case of HBA mode there are many cloning tools available. Better make a backup first and asap (you should already have one).

;-)

Re: Standalone HDD clone and replacement on DL380 Gen9

Sc23 — Tue, 01 Mar 2016 04:24:01 GMT

Thank you for your replies! Yes, it's running in HBA mode. Could you advise me some tools which work with servers and allow to make FULL backup? Or maybe I can do FULL backup using Windows built-in features?

Re: Standalone HDD clone and replacement on DL380 Gen9

NickC1 — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 21:57:24 GMT

You can use BackUpper Server version to do this. It is quick and easy to use.