I find it hard to believe that a MS support tech told you that system state backups do not work. Was this a MS employee or just some consultant. System state backups work fine when restoring to the same hardware. I would suggest doing some reading on USN rollbacks and see why imaging a DC is not supported.
On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Bob Muzzy <[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting. A MS support tech recently told me that restores from system > state backups don't work. It didn't for me and I felt foolish for having > religiously done them for so long only to find it worthless when I needed > it. > > This machine has a document management system, and is a certificate > authority. Both would be difficult to restore/recreate and are what > prompted my initial thought to use an image. Given that I'd hope to never > have to be more than 24 hrs out of sync, do you still think the risk is > great? And I don't mean according to official MS dictum as opposed the the > technical merits. > ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! > ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=400> ~ > ~ NEW: CounterSpy Enterprise: Centralized Antispyware - #1 in eWEEK Test! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/product.cfm?id=400> ~
