Re: Resizing Partitions

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Date: 05/15/04 

Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 19:12:41 -0700

"Merv Porter" <mwport@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:eqjVLdbOEHA.2844@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Rather than installing 3rd party software on the server, you could use
Ghost
> 2003 to boot from a special Ghost DOS Boot Floppy to image the
partition(s)
> to a spare hard drive and then restore them to the original drive while
> adjusting the partition sizes.

Very cumbersome.

> No software needs to be installed on the
> server for this.
>
> From that point, you could continue to use Ghost 2003 to image your server
> periodically for faster disaster recovery (Ghost image + most recent
> backup).

Better yet is to image the drive nightly for really fast disaster recovery.
An image makes a great backup.

> Acronis makes a similar product called True Image 7.0 but I'm not sure if
> you can boot to DOS from it to create images.

You don't need to. Acronis will image while the server is running. It's
one step beyond Ghost in its technology.

> --
> Merv Porter
> SBS-MVP
> ====================================
> "Richard Wagstaff" <rwagstaff@lawrence[NOTTHISBIT].co.uk> wrote in message
> news:eJUpmDaOEHA.4044@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> > Does anyone know of a program for re-sizing SBS 2003 disk partitions?
> > Powerquest's Volume Manager isn't supported (and doesn't work!) on 2003
> > systems and I'm wondering if anyone can recommend an alternative
product?
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
>
>

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