OK, we all know that BMR is really intended for restore on identical HW. For reasons that some of you may know, I need to migrate from a Dell server with a PERC S130 to the same HW but using a real RAID card, say a PERC H330. Here's what I tried:
a) Did a BMR backup to an external drive
b) Removed the old drives and old RAID controller
c) Inserted brand spanking new drives and the new RAID controller
d) Restored
Restore went well, but got the proverbial blue screen of death. I realized that there is probably a driver issue at hand, but not certain as the restore proceeded -- that is, the restore wrote onto the new disk array.
In any case, I have two ideas in my head:
a) Try putting the NEW RAID controller in the box without any drives connected to it while running on the old RAID. Hopefully Windows will detect new HW and either load a driver or ask to have a driver loaded (which I have). After that, do the BMR backup, remove the old RAID, swap in the new RAID and drives and hopefully, the restore image will have the right drivers.
b) Just install the driver for the new RAID while running on the old RAID (not bothering with actually installing the HW), then doing the BMR backup, and so forth.
Before blowing another few hours on this, any words of wisdom?
Ken