Backup only the data. Keep a copy of the install CDs and install instructions on site and off site. Practice your re-install. (We can re-install a box in under four hours with Citrix and all apps.)
> -----Original Message----- > From: Jan Boshoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 3:58 PM > To: Amanda Users > Subject: Disaster Recovery on Windows > > > Hi all > > I just had a thought and would like to probe the great minds of this > list. Would anyone do a disaster recovery type of restore of a Winbox > that was backed up using smbclient? I'm currently backing up the > complete winbox, but it occured to me that I don't know how I would > restore if something happened to the Winbox that we needed to restore > the complete drive. I mean, you need to have Win installed for > smbclient to talk to it accross the network. > > Any thoughts would be helpful! > Thanks again! > Jan > > -- > > ================================================ > Jan Boshoff > PhD Student, Chemical Engineering > Univ. of Delaware, DE USA > www.che.udel.edu/research_groups/nanomodeling > ================================================ > > >
