Re: [ActiveDir] Backups

[John Witasick]

Try PowerQuest's V2i Protector (recently acquired by Symantec), http://www.powerquest.com/v2i/protector/.  This software will allow you to blast down a real time image of your entire server to the firewire drive.  If the server crashes, replace the defective hardware, boot via PowerQuest's recovery CD, restore the latest image, and boot the server.   John ----- Original Message ----- From: Jake Connor To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 12:59 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Backups First of all, thank you for the information :-) 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 > > 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/ This E-mail, including any attachments, may be intended solely for the personal and confidential use of the sender and recipient (s) named above. This message may include advisory, consultative and/or deliberative material and, as such, would be privileged and confidential and not a public document. Any Information in this e-mail identifying a client of the department of Human Services is confidential. If you have received this e-mail in error, you must not review, transmit, convert to hard copy, copy, use or disseminate this e-mail or any attachments to it and you must delete this message. You are requested to notify the sender by return e-mail.