Re: ASR or FULL Backup

I've been successful with full restores (haven't tested ASR enough to say).
Did you select to include the System State in the backup? That's a
necessity. I'm not sure why else your last case would have failed unless
there were file errors in the restore.

All in all, disk imaging software is preferable to ntbackup, but it should
work. I don't the reliability of tapes and strongly recommend rotating
multiple tapes if that's your backup mechanism.
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"Confused xp user" <Confusedxpuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:0B203339-2972-4377-9706-892F55B1A822@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I am trying to make a disaster recovery plan using ntbackup in case my hard
> drive died. I have scheduled a full backup and differential backups to a
> tape
> drive. These seem to work. I then ran the ASR and created a floppy disk
> and a
> tape. My next step was to borrow a replacement hard drive and test my
> plan. I
> used my XP cd the floppy drive and the tape and all seemed ok untill 2hr
> 30
> minutes later when the tape stopped loading and I rebooted I received the
> dreaded ntldr missing mesage. I used recovery console and accessed the
> hard
> drive ntldr was there? I tried another hard disk as I thought it may be
> faulty but the same thing happened. I installed xp from my cd then
> restored
> the last full backup but this also rendered my disk unbootable. Has anyone
> had any success with ASR or Full restores?
> --
> Thanks for any help


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