Standalone HDD clone and replacement on DL380 Gen9

[Sc23]

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!

[Torsten.]

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.

[Jimmy Vance]

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@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.

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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

[Torsten.]

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).

;-)

[Sc23]

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?

[NickC1]

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