my personal strategy is as follows:
- I have Imagecast images for our 4 generic server types (NT/2000 web and db). this allows me to quickly deploy the OS and necessary applications. There are several products like Imagecast out on the market for imaging windows partitions. - change the network configurations on the box by hand - restore critical application and database files backed-up using amanda I've tested this 3 times, and actually did one real DR late one evening. And the lesson I can tell you from years of experience is to test your DR plans early and often - it will pay off when you actually have to perform one with every manager in the company calling you every minute for a status update... Matt +------------------------- Matthew Galer Senior Systems Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 770-453-9001 x127 > -----Original Message----- > From: Jan Boshoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 3:58 PM > To: Amanda Users > Subject: Disaster Recovery on Windows > > > Hi all > > I just had a thought and would like to probe the great minds of this > list. Would anyone do a disaster recovery type of restore of a Winbox > that was backed up using smbclient? I'm currently backing up the > complete winbox, but it occured to me that I don't know how I would > restore if something happened to the Winbox that we needed to restore > the complete drive. I mean, you need to have Win installed for > smbclient to talk to it accross the network. > > Any thoughts would be helpful! > Thanks again! > Jan > > -- > > ================================================ > Jan Boshoff > PhD Student, Chemical Engineering > Univ. of Delaware, DE USA > www.che.udel.edu/research_groups/nanomodeling > ================================================ > > >
