Re: Backup to file - swapping harddisk!

Hi Everybody!

Thnax for the replies :)

Best Regards
Thomas

"Tony Josephs" wrote:

> Thomas
>
> I do this with Ghost and it creates a bootable hard disk for offsite backup
> purposes. My only warning is that it does this from DOS and so cannot be
> done unattended. Ghost clones my source disc partitions and all directly
> with no problems.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Tony
>
> "StoreThomas" <StoreThomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:B172B7BE-9A71-4204-8BE5-85EF99FACBE4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi!
> >
> > We've got a customer who's using the SBS2003 intergated backup software
> > and
> > who is backing up to a file on a seperate harddisk - called F:.
> >
> > Now he want's to be able to swap this harddisk with a similar one, so that
> > he can take one of the disks off-site, in case of a fire. Sadly I can't
> > get
> > windows to react as I wan't it to react. I've formated to seperate
> > harddisks
> > (IDE) and called the partitions F: on both. They are both installed in
> > trays,
> > and fits in a bay in the machine (not both at the same time). The server
> > needs to be shut down to do the swap - and that's ok, but when I swap the
> > disks and boot into SBS2003, Disk Manager tells me that there is an
> > unknown
> > partition on the disk installed. I can then shut down and swap back to the
> > disk i formated last, and this partition can be seen as F:.
> >
> > Does anyone know a way to solve this? Can this be done with dynamic disks?
> > Can this be done with mount points? Or can this not be done at all.
> >
> > The path to the backup library needs to be the exact same, so that you
> > don't
> > have to change the backup job each time a new disk is inserted.
> >
> > Best Regards
> > Thomas
> > Denmark
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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