Upgrade 2000 to 2005

Gentlemen, geniuses, either or both....

My client has a multi-instance SQL 2000 SP3 (.818) cluster on Win2K3.

He wants to upgrade both instances to 2005. Cool.

No extra drives/luns/whatever the proper term is are available in the SAN.

Am I stuck with an in place upgrade? I would have preferred to do a side by
side and move the databases but the hardware just aint there.

In this situation, what you do from a "rollback" perspective in case he
upgrade blows chunks and has to revert? For a standalone, I assume imaging
software would work...would a cluster image work just as well?

2005 upgrades are something I just haven't touched yet...:(

Thanks!

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