Nice. Especially for clients where you're only really worried about the
data on the machine. But using "systemstate" may not allow you to do a
true bare metal restore of a windows box. For a bare metal restore
(servers, etc), I'd recommend doing an ASR backup of servers
periodically in ADDITION
> The above works only on Windows 2003 Server
As it turns out from the same guy there *is* a way to do a shadow of an entire
drive on XP, mentioned as a trackback to the end of the first link you gave:
A bit of black magic: How to assign drive letters to VSS shadow copies... on
Windows XP !
ht
Hi,
I've been asked to share how I solved to backup open and locked Files
under Windows 2003 using ShadowCopies - so here it goes.
Please notice that everything I describe here is just ?puzzeled? together
from various sources ? my own scripting skills are very limited ?
so maybe you?ll come up