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Guinch's avatar
Guinch
Level 3
10 years ago

RAW partition on windows server.

We have a sever that hosts an app that uses a RAW disk to store data. The standard windows filesystem "all local drives" policy fails as it cannot access the drive. Even the OS complains about the dri...
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Backup and Recovery
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Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • Marianne's avatar
    Marianne
    10 years ago
    I think that you will find the answer from the App storing data in this partition. If the App can write to it, it should know how to back it up. For example, Oracle on a Unix raw partition can backup the data with rman.
SymTerry's avatar
SymTerry
Level 6
10 years ago

HOWTO34724 gives a little more information, but the partition will still need to be formated.

Is this partition on a physical disk or external storage? If external you might be able to something with that.