Re: [BackupPC-users] Using ShadowCopies to backup open&locked Files under Windows

2007-04-03 Thread Stephen Joyce
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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Using ShadowCopies to backup open&locked Files under Windows

2007-04-03 Thread Adam Swift
> 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

[BackupPC-users] Using ShadowCopies to backup open&locked Files under Windows

2007-04-03 Thread Dominik . Hoffmann
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