Most of RAID levels offer better data protection than single drive, but even if your RAID is five times safer, you may want to increase the level of data protection even more - why not, if your data is really important.
If you care about your data, probably you already have our RAID Recovery product for emergency cases. We're glad to say that emergency is not the only reason to use our product - you can make your data safer by doing backups with RAID Recovery!
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You can backup selected drives or the whole array, in both cases you'll need enough drive space, probably another more complex RAID array which will be almost always turned off and mounted for backup reasons only. Backup for single drive of RAID array is important if you think there's something wrong with this drive, or it's just older than others, but you don't have time to replace it right now - in this case just backup it with RAID Recovery, and if there will be any problem with the drive in the future, you can recover your RAID replacing physical drive with backup file created earlier.
How to create backup of single drive from RAID array and of the whole RAID Array?
Disable the RAID so the drives will be seen as separate drives, run RAID Recovery, right-click to the drive you need to backup, select Create Image and specify the folder to save the backup file. If you need to backup the whole RAID, you may not disable it, just open RAID Recovery, find your RAID Volume and do the same Create Image.
What should I do to recover RAID from backup with RAID Recovery?
If you have the backup of the whole RAID, just mount it using RAID Recovery Menu-Drives-Mount Image. You'll see the new RAID volume appeared in the drive list. Now all you need to do is to click it with left mouse button, scan and select the data to recover from backup.
If you have the backup of the one or more separate RAID disks, just perform the regular recovery of your RAID with RAID Wizard, and when select the drives to create virtual RAID, select instead of problem physical drive it's backup image. Then complete RAID Wizard and follow to Disk Wizard to recover your RAID.
