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Backing up RAID arrays (Linux)
Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Agent for Linux can back up and recover Linux Software RAID devices
(known as multiple-disk devices or MD devices) and hardware RAID arrays.
Software RAID arrays
Software RAID arrays, or MD devices, combine several volumes and make solid block devices
(/dev/md0, /dev/md1, ..., /dev/md31), information of which is stored in /etc/raidtab or in dedicated
areas of those volumes.
Backup
You can back up active (mounted) software arrays in the same way as logical volumes. The arrays
appear at the end of the list of volumes available for backup.
Basic volumes included in software arrays are listed as if they had a corrupted file system or do
not have a file system at all. Backing up such volumes does not make sense when a software
array is mounted, as it won’t be possible to recover them.
Example
Here is an example of a volumes list obtained with the
--list
command. The GUI displays a similar
table.
The system has RAID-1 configured on two basic volumes: sdc1, sdd1.
Num Partition Flags Start Size Type
---- -------------------- ----------- ---------- ---------- -----------
Disk 1:
1-1 sda1 Pri,Act 63 208782 Ext3
1-2 sda2 Pri 208845 15550920 ReiserFS
1-3 sda3 Pri 15759765 1012095 Linux Swap
Disk 2:
Table 0 Table
Unallocated 1 16771859 Unallocated
Disk 3:
3-1 sdc1 Pri 63 16755732 Ext3
Unallocated 16755795 16065 Unallocated
Disk 4:
4-1 sdd1 Pri 63 16755732 None
Unallocated 16755795 16065 Unallocated
Disk 5:
Table 0 Table
Unallocated 1 16771859 Unallocated
Dynamic & GPT Volumes:
DYN1 md0 33511168 Ext3
Disk: 5 0 63
Disk: 4 0 63
You can back up the RAID array as follows:
trueimagecmd --create --partition:DYN1 --filename:/tmp/raid.tib --
progress:on
In the Graphical User Interface you can select the
DYN1
check box.