You could also look at USB2 - faster than Firewire and some BIOS (e.g. IBM) support boot from USB and you don't need any drivers loaded on the O/S in the first place to connect the drive...
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1) Sent: 14 January 2004 12:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Backups using a FW drive, you may run into issues with available drivers to allow you to copy the data without first re-installing an OS on the box. There are some cool free-utilities (such as a disk-cloner) that you may want to look at - but I have no idea if they support drives connected via FW: http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/uk/welcome.htm so in worst case, you'd have to restore the OS onto the new harddrive (default install - incl. the FW driver, if this is not in the default) and then restore your backup afterwards onto this new drive. Otherwise you may preferr using a backup on tape afterall, for which you can get routines to completely restore a server from bare-metal fully automated. /Guido -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jake Connor Sent: Mittwoch, 14. Januar 2004 00:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ActiveDir] Backups I have a schedule backup that just copies everything on my hard drive to a drive on my firewire drive. If my active hard drive crashes, how do I restore it with the data on my firewire drive so I can just boot up the new hard drive and it will have all the active directory users and all that stuff? Thanks List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/mail_list.htm List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/list_faq.htm List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
