Re: Suggestions for images of server

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Paragon is another one that seems to be very well regarded by its users. 
IIRC it's quite reasonably priced.
http://paragon.ag/


"Simon" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Kerry Brown wrote:
>> Simon wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>I'm using the inbuilt backup utility with sbs and it seems fine. I'd
>>>like to take an image of the server to an external hdd in case of
>>>system failure as I have read that to restore from a backup you need
>>>to install the product from cd, then patch to the same level before
>>>applying the restore. All very well but that process would add 4+
>>>hours to the system recovery when you are getting beaten up by
>>>users!!. I tried to use norton ghost 10 but it was having nothing to
>>>do with sbs2003. What do you people use/recommend for this job, I'm happy 
>>>enough with
>>>  the backup built in so don't see the need to buy a 3rd party one,
>>>just something to take an image every now and then.
>>>Thanks
>>>simon
>>
>>
>> I have successfully imaged and restored servers (2000 and 2003 DC's but 
>> not SBS) with Acronis True Image 8.0. I haven't tried it with the latest 
>> version of TI. The server has to be down and TI run from the bootable TI 
>> recovery CD.
>>
>> Kerry
> Hi Kerry, thanks for the quick reply. Looking at the website it seems that 
> true image 8 server for windows is the one I would need. Looks like it 
> does the job but $699 is way over what I was hoping to spend. The system 
> the client has is raid 5 anyway so hopefully would take a pretty 
> catastrophic event to need this type of recovery. If anyone knows of a 
> cheaper alternative - I've used linux CDs to resize ntfs partitions in the 
> past with success (and some nail biting :) ) It would be useful for me to 
> have so that after initial builds for clients I can image before changes 
> are made etc.
> Thanks again
> simon 


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