'What do you use for workstation backups?' Actually, we don't back up individual workstations as we are a large firm. However, we have mapped each user's workstation to their home drives via startup scripts where they place their work related files. Backup Exec is used to backup all our file servers, Exchange store, and user's personal directories. All the users are not local admins so that alleviates headaches with spyware and other nuances. As for hardware failures, it's simple as restoring the Ghost Hardware Independent image (sysprep file contains the path to the driver files for each type of workstation/laptop we have) to another box and having sysprep join it to the domain as well as resetting the SIDs. User then only needs to login.
-Shariff -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Garyp New Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 1:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Profile migration to new domain Shariff, What do you use for workstation backups? Or do you back them up at all? As a matter of fact, what do any of you do for the workstations - as far as their documents/files and emails. Maybe I'm redundant (can you have too much of that in this business? - maybe), but I'm backing up the individual ws's every night (goes back two days) to a separate HD on each ws (this helps get right back up and running if there's an OS or program problem). And backing up the servers where their My Documents folders have been redirected. And copies of their email (we don't use Exchange - we have an external email provider) are also backed up to a separate location. This backup system has been evolving for the past 6 years and a lot has changed since then. Maybe it could be done more efficiently, but it works for our small mfg company. As for Ghost and sysprep... truth is I've been meaning to try it out for some time now - no time avail to do it. Will look at it soon though - sounds like it's much better than my current route. Thanks for the suggestion. Gary -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Navroz Shariff Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 12:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Profile migration to new domain Thanks for the reply Gary...I was just curious. Have you tried using Ghost for cloning and sysprep for post deployment? It works pretty well even with the Dell partition. -Shariff -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Garyp New Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 11:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Profile migration to new domain I use Symantec V2i Desktop (formerly Powerquest Drive Image) for backing up and for cloning my workstations's. The restores don't seem to work, especially when restoring cloned image, when I leave that Dell partition on there. Advice I got from a consultant (pretty good consultant otherwise, so don't say drop the guy) was to wipe that partition. It's stopped the problems. And I seem to have fewer problems in general when I wipe the HD clean and install windows without the Dell partition. I'm open to suggestions - probably some good ones in this bunch. That's probably not the best way to clone either. Gary -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Navroz Shariff Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 10:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Profile migration to new domain Gary, Why would you nuke the Dell partition? I find it very useful for diagnosing hardware issues especially when Dell reps ask: 'Did you run the Dell diagnostics on your machine and if so what's the error code?' prior to them sending out the needed hardware replacement. -Shariff -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Garyp New Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 9:54 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Profile migration to new domain Susan, All nuke and pave's may not be equal. Occasionally, I encounter a machine where the little Dell partition doesn't want to completely go away when you try to re-partition the HD during the windows install. That causes problems for the windows install, or other issues if the install goes through, that can't be cleared up unless I use Partition Magic to wipe the partition and then re-partition it during the windows install. Has worked every time so far. Just a thought. Gary Polvinale Denton ATD -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] Sent: Thursday, June 01, 2006 9:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Profile migration to new domain Well I nuked and paved a formerly Dell OEM now a retail OS.. and now can't get the NIC on the motherboard to find nic drivers....anyone for a black decorative doorstop until I find the driver it wants or throw a intel card in there? 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