I need to back up a hardware raid 1 configuration. the plan is to replace the two disks that have the raid on them with two larger, faster drives. I want to backup and then restore the info to the new raid 1. Can I use symantec ghost? According to their web site you can with some tweaking but I was hoping to talk with anyone who has done it. thanks....

It's been awhile but I believe the procedure is break the mirror set, ghost drive1 to the new larger drive [with ghost you can expand from a smaller drive to use the entire larger drive], then redo the hardware mirror set. This of course all depends on being able to boot a floppy with the raid card support. Golly gee wilerkers everyone. Learn to Internet Search

http://www.acronis.com have some very good Server Software which may accomplish what you require.

Don't know about win 2003 but with my win 2000 pro I was able to restore an image into a hardware raid array,,, a mirrored, serial ata setup... with acronis 9.0 They offer a 15 day free trial... I am seriously thinking of upgrading my old acronis 7.0 to it,,,

I have done this using ghost working on a server 2003 box with raid 1. Taking the image is easy, assuming you have a free IDE channel. Just plug in a IDE drive to save the image too. Then remove your old RAID setup and plug your new drives in. With hardware raid you can set up your raid 1 without having the OS on it. Then simply ghost the image from your IDE drive back onto the new RAID 1 setup. Ghost will resize the partitions itself. So if you have one partiton it will use the full size of the drive . Otherwise it works on a ratio system where the partitions are all increased so as to take up the same percentages as they did before. This is all assuming you use Ghost from a bootable floppy :)and a recent version of ghost i'm using ghost from 2003 systemworks which is ver 7 i think

thanks for everyone's help. I didn't realize that the customers server had a c: and a d: partition on one hard drive. the raid was hardware based and the system is all SCSI. We used ghost to back up each partion to a different hard drive and then we just shut down the machine, pulled out the old hard drives without breaking the mirror and then installed the new drives. When we turned on the server, we then deleted to mirror and recreated it. This way we still have our two originall disks intact in case we messed anything up. We had to recreate the partions, but ghost kept giving us a "inconsistency error" while restoring partion d:. We ended up creating a d: partition but we didn't format it or anything. we had to let the ghost program handle doing that...we were then able to restore the d: partition(which is where the active directiory database was located) and everyone was happy...thanks for your suggestions. Its nice to have other people watching your back.