I would like to make a complete hard drive backup onto the firewire drive (like a complete image) so that if the one on my system crashed then I can just get the hard drive on the fire wire cable and put it into the IDE ribbons.
I probably should have mentioned that what I am using is just a fire wire cable that lets you connect any type of IDE drive to it.
So with pcinspector, would it be able to make a complete copy of the hard drive (with all the partitions, bootup stuff, etc) to another hard drive and have that hard drive be exactly the same as the hard drive in the system so in the event of a crash I can just swap the hard drive, start up the system, and everything is back to normal with all my Active Directory users, etc?
Thanks once again in advanced.
Jake
On Jan 14, 2004, at 4:25 AM, GRILLENMEIER,GUIDO (HP-Germany,ex1) wrote:
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
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