Re: ntbackup & System Files
From: Laura E. Hunter \(MVP\) (hunter(nospamplease)_at_sfs.upenn.edu)
Date: 05/03/04
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Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 14:42:36 -0400
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The Automated System Recovery Preparation Wizard backs up the System State
System State
In Backup, a collection of system-specific data maintained by the operating
system that must be backed up as a unit. It is not a backup of the entire
system. The System State data includes the registry, COM+ Class Registration
database, system files, boot files, and files under Windows File Protection.
For servers, the System State data also includes the Certificate Services
database (if the server is a certificate server). If the server is a domain
controller, the System State data also includes the Active Directory
database and the SYSVOL directory. If the server is a node in a cluster, it
includes the Cluster database information. The IIS Metabase is included if
Internet Information Services (IIS) is installed.
data, system services, and all disks associated with the operating system
components. It also creates a floppy disk, which contains information about
the backup, the disk configurations (including basic and dynamic volumes),
and how to accomplish a restore.
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For a domain controller, the System State data will include the Active
Directory database, yes. What ASR does -not- cover is any data files that
exist on the server. They need to be backed up seperately from creating the
ASR disk.
ASR supports NTFS drives, or FAT16 volumes up to 2GB in size. If you have a
FAT drive that's larger than that, you need to convert it to NTFS to store
ASR info on it. (And what are you doing running FAT on a server anyway?
:-) )
-- ****************************** Laura E. Hunter - MCSE, MCT, MVP Replies to newsgroup only "Todd" <toddm@rahul.net> wrote in message news:ufjMBnTMEHA.1340@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... >I do nightly backups of all our data files. I'm trying to figure out what > to do if the system drive fails. The help files don't have much detail on > the Automated System Recovery feature. It looks like it creates a floppy > disk used by the windows installation cd. It also asks for a location to > store the files. What storages devices are supported by the recovery > process? Our normal backup uses a firewire hard disk. Will that work for > ASR? > > Does the ASR backup data files or just the system files? The ASR will > restore AD, right? > > Thanks > >
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