No, you need some sort of backup/imaging software.
Hi All, Apologies if this has been answered before, or there is a simple solution I have not yet come across. I have a Dell Poweredge 2900 with a Perc 6/i RAID controller. I will be using OMSA to reconfigure a RAID 5 virtual disk as I want to expand the data storage on this disk, however I would like to backup the VD before I go ahead and commit to reconfiguring the disk (the data stored on the VD is critical and I don't want anything to go wrong during the reconfiguration and lose any data). I have the RAID 5 VD on 4 drives and have filled the other 4 empty bays with identical drives and created a new VD on these new drives. Is there any way that I can use either the BIOS RAID configuration or OMSA to clone everything from the original VD to the new VD, or will I require some third-party software?
Cloning a virtual disk before expanding a RAID 5 system