Re: Backup - Restore and Disk Image Program

Hi

Steve, you could you please elaborate on the specific problems that a disk
image would NOT solve? Please note that I describe our network in my initial
post. It is a single domain with 1 computer as the domain master and another
computer as a member server.
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"Steve Goddard" wrote:

To restore a system to within a half an hour of the working state would
require much more than ghost or any backup system I know of. At this level of
continuity of service you need failover clusters and lots of standby
workstations.

But if the disaster was total such as a building fire you need a secondary
site permanently on standby. Most backup solutions such as Ghost depends on
the hardware still being available, is that feasible to matain a secondary
copy of all your hardware offsite?

Maybe you should take a look at duplicating hardware and porting the key
service providers or the whole thing into a hosted enviroment such as VMWare.
It would be much easier to failover and recover that in event of a small or
large scale disaster.

"Hank Arnold" wrote:

You need to rethink your prejudice against Symantec, at least w.r.t.
Ghost. I can understand it when talking about NAV/SAV. I got a copy of
NAV 2006 (free after rebates). I removed it within a couple of weeks and
reverted to NAV 2005.

However, Ghost is a completely different story. It's exactly what you
need. You can clone drives, create drive images and even backups. I've
found the corporate and personal versions to be robust and extremely
useful with no problems.

If you can afford it, the corporate version will allow you to do some
pretty amazing things.

If you are running an AD domain, be very careful about trying to restore
a DC with a cloned drive (or backup). It's not nearly as straight
forward as restoring a non-DC server....

Regards,
Hank Arnold

WPD wrote:
Hi

If, for example the hard drive crashes, burns and is consumed by the fires
of hell, I want to be able to slide in a new hard drive with everything
already installed. Well, not quite everything. Of course, there will be data
that has been backed-up that will need to be added. But the idea is to be
back up and running within the hour, and preferably, within the 1/2-hour.

Your mentioned "Ghost". Isn't that a Symantec product? If so, I eliminated
Symantec from my life several years ago because I found that they were, all
too frequently, a problem-creator rather than a problem-solver.

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"Steve Goddard" wrote:

I'm a fan of Ghost, but really I think you should just NTbackup things and
rebuild to a core OS and restore if you suffer a complete failure.

"WPD" wrote:

We have a micro-sized client/server network of 2 servers with Windows Server
2003 - Service Pack 2, 3 clients with Windows XP Pro - Service Pack 2 and 2
clients with Windows 2000 Pro.

I want to add a backup/restore program that will include a Disk Image
feature. I would appreciate any assistance in reaching a decision about which
product to acquire.

Thank you for your help.

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