Ghost starting with v7 I believe includes a second CD which has the widgets to make PXE booting work. Now given you have no remote access, how are you going to set the server's BIOS to pxe boot first?
As far as reimaging, you can certainly deploy a sysprep'ed image and then restore your data. That's an excellent idea. If you're thinking about imaging your production servers as is for backups, that's a hairy sitation. If we're talking about domain controllers, no, no, and no. Others should work ok on a case by case basis, just might have to reset their secure channel after restore. Make sure you know the local password. I personally don't like the imaging for backup approach. I have a OS load image for each of the types of hardware/OS I have and I can rapidly deploy and then restore. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ravi Dogra Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 7:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ActiveDir] Server Image Pushing Using Ghost Cast Server and DHCP Hi All, I have a question? Can i have an ghost image for my server and if in a situation of server crash i can rebuild it using ghost image. But this all is to be done remotely, so i dont have any physical access to the server. Can i have another server configured as dhcp so that i can run this image through PXE boot. and the some how i can run ghost cast server to push image to this machine. I am a little confused. But i am sure if it works than recovering a server will be less time consuming job for me. I have this as a backup option which i have to plan for our new site. -- DR List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
