RE: [ActiveDir] Backups...

2005-02-21 Thread Garello, Kenneth
Found this on the web http://www.dlttape.com/DLTtape/Backup+Basics/Media+Calculator.htm   Ken   From: Jason B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2005 5:10 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Backups...   Slightly OT for an AD

[ActiveDir] Backups...

2005-02-17 Thread Jason B
Slightly OT for an AD forum, but since I've seen so much great advice flow through this list, and we're populated with Sys Admins (who are frequently in charge of backups) I figured I'd throw it out there.    We have two Dell Tape autoloaders that have 8 slots (7 DLT IV + 1 cleaning tape). 

Re: [ActiveDir] Backups

2004-01-16 Thread Jake Connors
y, January 15, 2004 2:18 PM Subject:Re: [ActiveDir] Backups I don't have the installation disk because I downloaded the trial edition from the website which was not a CD image. It came with a UTILITY folder which has a file called Pqboot32.exe, PartInNT.exe, and a few others. Am I supposed to

Re: [ActiveDir] Backups

2004-01-16 Thread John Witasick
John W - Original Message - From: Jake Connor To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Backups I don't have the installation disk because I downloaded the trial edition from the website which was not a CD

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2004-01-15 Thread Sam Khoury
y at small companies as there reliance on the production system is not high. Yusuf -Original Message- From: GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 14 January, 2004 23:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Backups I wondered that in this whole

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2004-01-15 Thread Jake Connor
n run the recovery console.   John - Original Message - From: Jake Connors To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:11 AM Subject:Re: [ActiveDir] Backups Cool I got only a single drive. Do you know how do I create the boot cd for this application? Jake On Jan 14, 2004, at

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2004-01-15 Thread John Witasick
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Backups Cool I got only a single drive. Do you know how do I create the boot cd for this application?JakeOn Jan 14, 2004, at 3:04 PM, John Witasick wrote: Yes.  Hardware RAID (such as a Dell PERC card

Re: [ActiveDir] Backups

2004-01-15 Thread Jake Connors
need no configuration, other than maybe a format.   John - Original Message - From: Jake Connor To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Wednesday, January 14, 2004 5:09 PM Subject:Re: [ActiveDir] Backups On the site in mentions a complete bare metal server restoration. Does that mean it can restore

RE: [ActiveDir] Backups

2004-01-15 Thread Ken Cornetet
e problems have been rectified. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1) Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 4:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Backups I wondered that in this whole discussion

RE: [ActiveDir] Backups

2004-01-15 Thread Yusuf Mayet
there reliance on the production system is not high. Yusuf -Original Message- From: GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 January, 2004 23:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Backups I wondered that in this whole discussion about how to pr

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2004-01-14 Thread John Witasick
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 5:09 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Backups On the site in mentions a complete bare metal server restoration. Does that mean it can restore your OS (and all the data of course) on to a completely blank hard drive with no partitions and software installe

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2004-01-14 Thread Jake Connor
the latest image, and boot the server.   John - Original Message - From: Jake Connor To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:59 PM Subject:Re: [ActiveDir] Backups First of all, thank you for the information :-) I would like to make a complete hard drive backup onto th

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2004-01-14 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jake Connor Sent: Mittwoch, 14. Januar 2004 20:23 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 Symante

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2004-01-14 Thread Douglas M. Long
image you just restored 3. Run "Restore" on the backup file. 4. Done -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jake Connor Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 3:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Backups Why don't you

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2004-01-14 Thread Guy Teverovsky
at you have to do the backup "offline", > but of course DriveImage and the like require that too. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jake Connor > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 2:23 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ActiveDir] Backups

2004-01-14 Thread Jake Connor
-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

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2004-01-14 Thread Ken Cornetet
s that you have to do the backup "offline", but of course DriveImage and the like require that too. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jake Connor Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 2:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] B

RE: [ActiveDir] Backups

2004-01-14 Thread Mark Nold
ary 14, 2004 12:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Backups If you need to setup a new machine with a new sid, use sysprep. It comes with 2000/2003/XP and it will remove all the machine specific info. Run it before you create the ghost image, and you can pop it on any machin

RE: [ActiveDir] Backups

2004-01-14 Thread Clay Perrine
specific data. Clay Perrine MCSE Microsoft Active Directory Support Team. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Nold Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 1:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Backups Don't know about Drive

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2004-01-14 Thread Mark Nold
M 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

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2004-01-14 Thread Jake Connor
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 hundre

RE: [ActiveDir] Backups

2004-01-14 Thread Mark Nold
, January 14, 2004 11:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Backups   Yikes! Thats about a thousand dollars backup tool. Thats a little bit over my budget, do you recommend any other software solutions?   On Jan 14, 2004, at 10:12 AM, John Witasick wrote:   Try

Re: [ActiveDir] Backups

2004-01-14 Thread John Witasick
If you're on the cheap (as indicated in one of your other emails), this is definitely not the way to go.   John - Original Message - From: Jake Connor To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 2:03 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Backups

RE: [ActiveDir] Backups

2004-01-14 Thread Mark Nold
ging 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

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2004-01-14 Thread Jake Connor
Connor To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:59 PM 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 then I ca

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2004-01-14 Thread Jake Connor
ives 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 fir

RE: [ActiveDir] Backups

2004-01-14 Thread Coleman, Hunter
TED] 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 then I ca

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2004-01-14 Thread John Witasick
est's recovery CD, restore the latest image, and boot the server.   John - Original Message - From: Jake Connor To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:59 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Backups First of all, thank you for the information

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2004-01-14 Thread Jake Connor
ECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Backups I have a schedule backup that just copies everything on my hard drive to a drive on my firewire drive. If my active hard drive crashes, how do I restore it with the data on my firewire drive so I can just boot up the new hard drive and it will have all the active dire

RE: [ActiveDir] Backups

2004-01-14 Thread Joe Baguley
MEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1) Sent: 14 January 2004 12:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Backups 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

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2004-01-14 Thread GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1)
up 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: [Acti

[ActiveDir] Backups

2004-01-13 Thread Jake Connor
I have a schedule backup that just copies everything on my hard drive to a drive on my firewire drive. If my active hard drive crashes, how do I restore it with the data on my firewire drive so I can just boot up the new hard drive and it will have all the active directory users and all that st

RE: [ActiveDir] Backups - including system state

2002-04-15 Thread Rick Kingslan
]] On Behalf Of > SALANDRA, JUSTIN > Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 10:41 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Backups - including system state > > > So what you are saying is that in order for Backup Exec 8.6 > to backup the system state with

RE: [ActiveDir] Backups - including system state

2002-04-15 Thread ActiveDir
David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Posted At: Monday, April 15, 2002 12:39 PM Posted To: ActiveDir Conversation: [ActiveDir] Backups - including system state Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Backups - including system state Well, at least as far as that particular issue is concerned I suppose. FWIW, I have

RE: [ActiveDir] Backups - including system state

2002-04-15 Thread SALANDRA, JUSTIN
- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 11:36 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Backups - including system state Oh oh, pressure is on ;) I just looked it up: TechNote ID: 239739 -Original Message- From: Al L

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2002-04-15 Thread Andy David
Oh oh, pressure is on ;) I just looked it up: TechNote ID: 239739 -Original Message- From: Al Lilianstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 11:30 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Backups - including system state Andy David wrote: > > Ye

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2002-04-15 Thread Al Lilianstrom
Andy David wrote: > > Yes, 8.6 added support for the "Restrict Anonymous" key. i.e. with the > proper reg hack, BE 8.6 can backup the system state even if null sessions > have been disabled on the machine you are attempting to back up. > Are you saying that a reg hack has to be done to get th

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2002-04-15 Thread ASnipes
but to your point, see 'ol Andy's response: (i won't send any more on this ) -Original Message- From: Andy Grafton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 10:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Backups - including system state > Do

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2002-04-15 Thread Andy Grafton
> Do you have the open file option installed and deployed to these servers? > Usually Back up exec will skip over files that are in use unless you install > and deploy this agent. No OFO. It started to cause trouble on one or two servers, but that was pre-AD so I never tried the system state wit

RE: [ActiveDir] Backups - including system state

2002-04-15 Thread Andy David
TED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 10:52 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Backups - including system state Do you have the open file option installed and deployed to these servers? Usually Back up exec will skip over files that are in use unless you install and deploy this

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2002-04-15 Thread Andy David
: [ActiveDir] Backups - including system state > For the Backup Exec users - have you seen problems with v8.6x not > backing up system state reliably? Identical problems here. Occurs seemingly at random on our production and development domains. Have been wondering about it myself. He

RE: [ActiveDir] Backups - including system state

2002-04-15 Thread SALANDRA, JUSTIN
. Salandra, MCSE Senior Network Engineer Catholic Healthcare System 914.681.8117 office 646.483.3325 cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Andy Grafton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 10:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: [ActiveDir] Backups

Re: [ActiveDir] Backups - including system state

2002-04-15 Thread Andy Grafton
> For the Backup Exec users - have you seen problems with v8.6x not > backing up system state reliably? Identical problems here. Occurs seemingly at random on our production and development domains. Have been wondering about it myself. Here's a transcript of a typical log. If you run the job

RE: [ActiveDir] Backups - including system state

2002-04-15 Thread Rogers, Michael J.
until they fix it. -Original Message- From: Andy David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 9:54 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Backups - including system state Yes, I have seen that as well. What is the exact error message you are gett

RE: [ActiveDir] Backups - including system state

2002-04-15 Thread Andy David
Yes, I have seen that as well. What is the exact error message you are getting? -Original Message- From: Al Lilianstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 9:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Backups - including system state For the Backup Exec users

Re: [ActiveDir] Backups - including system state

2002-04-15 Thread Al Lilianstrom
CTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 9:42 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:[ActiveDir] Backups - including system state > > For the Backup Exec users - have you seen problems with v8.6x not > backing up system state reliably? If so - were you able to corre

RE: [ActiveDir] Backups - including system state

2002-04-15 Thread SALANDRA, JUSTIN
office 646.483.3325 cell [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Al Lilianstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 9:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[ActiveDir] Backups - including system state For the Backup Exec users - have you seen

[ActiveDir] Backups - including system state

2002-04-15 Thread Al Lilianstrom
For the Backup Exec users - have you seen problems with v8.6x not backing up system state reliably? If so - were you able to correct them? The error was usually something involving not being able to access the data. But the account running the backup has admin access to the server. We've seen it