Re: SBS2003 Missing Installation Media

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In article <6EFD922B-6220-48C0-8F21-10D79EAFB36B@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
DaveMReddish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
I have a prospective customer for SBS2003 maintenance and support who wishes
to change from his existing maintainer who also built and installed the
system - with SBS2003 Standard OEM.

I advised the customer to ensure the installation disks were kept but on
their asking the maintainer for them was told they were unavailable and not
needed anyway.

(Backup tapes are made but if there were a system crash there is no
restoration operating system available to run them.)

As I understand it it is not obligatory for the builder to provide media,
unless agreed in the sale contract, but it seems poor practice particularly
since no restoration image was made of the system.

If I proceed without the media the following questions come to mind: -

In the event of OS problems could I run a Windows OS repair using other
SBS2003 media eg I made a bootable version of the Technet Plus copy?

The Server has a SBS COA with product key on its side. In the event of a
disaster could I do a re-installation with different media and then switch to
this Key?

My initial plan is to stick in another HDD, copy the OS partition to it and
also make a Ghost image of it on DVD.

It seems almost unnecessary to add that the whole of the system is based on
one HDD with only one partition ie no RAID, no separation of OS, data, and
database, and no restore partition.

Your advice would be appreciated.

What about imaging the system, and restoring upon failure - making some
changes, re-imaging (keep the original image of course), and trying
again, etc etc.

I have sucessfully used Paragon Drive Image Server and Acronis TrueImage
- both have some nice features too.

--
Duncan
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