I'm about to do a migration from Raid-5 to Raid-10 and add some hard drives.
But before I do that I think it's good to have a complete offline backup.
So I have a 1 TB external hard drive ready to put the backup on.
But what software do you use for such an important backup?
In the past I used Ghost, but I'm not sure if that's a good idea considering this is a Raid system.
And in case of a failure I don't want the Domain Controller to freak out.
Any suggestions?
Best Answer
You don't mention what version of Windows you're using, but if it's 2008 or later, the built in Windows Server Backup is fine for this. You can use those backups for bare-metal recovery and for file-level recovery. It's also AD aware.
That said, you should be doing normal backups anyway! Especially if this is a DC!