On Jan 14, 2004, at 11:40 AM, Mark Nold wrote:
Don't know about Drive Image. Didn't see it on Symantec's site.
We have/use the corp edition of Ghost. And yes it does have its drawback, but it works for us overall. We are a small shop of 150 employees; 130 of whom are all located in one office.
As another poster already pointed out, I DON'T image my servers. I build those from scratch....but I also only have 5 total servers. I do however image all my desktops and laptops and then use GhostWalker to re-sid the machine.
Ghost Personal (now Ghost 2003) only lets you drop your image from disk to disk or some such and does not offer some of the "advanced" cloning items (re-sid, etc). But you don't need nor want to re-sid you image. So I would think that ghost 2003 would work.
-----Original Message----- From: Jake Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:23 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Backups
No they are too cheap to buy a few hard drives and a raid card :-\
I'll look into Ghost and pcInspector. Do you know if Drive Image by Symantec will work on Win2k server or just workstations?
On Jan 14, 2004, at 11:09 AM, Mark Nold wrote:
aThey would spring for Ghost or pcInspector or the like, but not 80 bucks for a 120G IDE drive that you could slap in there to mirror?
Do you have any "dead" pc's lying around that you can grab the IDE drive from? Not the best I know, but seems like it would be better than re-imaging your drive after every change you made in AD to keep your "backup" fresh.
My 2cents anyway....
-----Original Message----- From: Jake Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Backups
Because it's a small company and I have recommended it a hundred times but in a nutshell, they are too cheap even though we have experiencedtoserver crash which took about almost a week to restore everything (which costs more for paying me) and they don't realize a RAID will solve about almost everything and cheaper.
On Jan 14, 2004, at 10:25 AM, Coleman, Hunter wrote:
If you're concerned about the hard drive failing, why not just set upaRAID1 (mirror) configuration? Cost would be low, and you won't haveI
worry about creating disk images and swapping hard drives around.
Hunter
-----Original Message----- From: Jake Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Backups
First of all, thank you for the information :-)
I would like to make a complete hard drive backup onto the firewire drive (like a complete image) so that if the one on my system crashed thenIDE
can just get the hard drive on the fire wire cable and put it into theharddriveribbons.wrote:
I probably should have mentioned that what I am using is just a fire wire cable that lets you connect any type of IDE drive to it.
So with pcinspector, would it be able to make a complete copy of the hard drive (with all the partitions, bootup stuff, etc) to another hard drive and have that hard drive be exactly the same as the hard drive in the system so in the event of a crash I can just swap the hard drive, start up the system, and everything is back to normal with all my Active Directory users, etc?
Thanks once again in advanced.
Jake
On Jan 14, 2004, at 4:25 AM, GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)want
using a FW drive, you may run into issues with available drivers to allow you to copy the data without first re-installing an OS on the box. There are some cool free-utilities (such as a disk-cloner) that you mayto look at - but I have no idea if they support drives connected via FW: http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm
so in worst case, you'd have to restore the OS onto the newdrivedefault)(default install - incl. the FW driver, if this is not in theand then restore your backup afterwards onto this new drive.
Otherwise you may preferr using a backup on tape afterall, for which you can get routines to completely restore a server from bare-metal fully automated.
/Guido
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jake Connor Sent: Mittwoch, 14. Januar 2004 00:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Backups
I have a schedule backup that just copies everything on my hardonto a drive on my firewire drive.
If my active hard drive crashes, how do I restore it with the datawillmy firewire drive so I can just boot up the new hard drive and ithave all the active directory users and all that stuff?
Thanks
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