And if you mention Linux, you can go a little further and get your own rescue CD with a nice set of tools for imaging and basic disaster recovery: http://www.t4k.org/~ebcd/ Can image even over the network.
Guy On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 22:16, Ken Cornetet wrote: > 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/ -- 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/
