If you feel comfortable with Linux, you could build a bootable floppy or CDROM with firewire support. Then, backing up your internal disk to the firewire disk is as simple as "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb" (assuming internal disk is hda and firewire is hdb).
The disadvantage of this is that you have to do the backup "offline", but of course DriveImage and the like require that too. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jake Connor Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 2:23 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Backups No they are too cheap to buy a few hard drives and a raid card :-\ I'll look into Ghost and pcInspector. Do you know if Drive Image by Symantec will work on Win2k server or just workstations? On Jan 14, 2004, at 11:09 AM, Mark Nold wrote: > 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/ > 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/
