Raid0 And Image/Backup

How are You Backing up your raid0 systems?
If you dont have raid clonezilla is great! however clonezilla can not image the raid arrays like it can a regular partition.
i believe it copies them sector by sector and the free space is copied as well so you wind up with huge image files?
What can we do?
Thank you
Paul

You could always use rsync to copy the files to an actual Raid, USB drive, or server. Rsync wont create an image, but it backs everything up.
Have you tried the Wiki?
Last edited by piratebill (2012-06-19 21:05:37)

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