They would spring for Ghost or pcInspector or the like, but not 80 bucks for a 120G IDE drive that you could slap in there to mirror?
Do you have any "dead" pc's lying around that you can grab the IDE drive from? Not the best I know, but seems like it would be better than re-imaging your drive after every change you made in AD to keep your "backup" fresh. My 2cents anyway.... -----Original Message----- From: Jake Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:03 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Backups Because it's a small company and I have recommended it a hundred times but in a nutshell, they are too cheap even though we have experienced a server crash which took about almost a week to restore everything (which costs more for paying me) and they don't realize a RAID will solve about almost everything and cheaper. On Jan 14, 2004, at 10:25 AM, Coleman, Hunter wrote: > If you're concerned about the hard drive failing, why not just set up a > RAID1 (mirror) configuration? Cost would be low, and you won't have to > worry > about creating disk images and swapping hard drives around. > > Hunter > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jake Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 11:00 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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/ > 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/
