For windows server, I don't trust something like Ghost, unless you do the -IA option, which does block-level backup of a partition, but then it's difficult to backup the partition table, mbr, and so forth.
I also don't use exclusively something like BackupExec, or whatever to backup "system state" because restoring is then very difficult too. You have to get the system to a known state (by installing windows and applying all the same patches/hotfixes, etc) before you can restore system state. Long and short of it: I want to backup the first 1Mb (or 10Mb) of the hard drive, to get the MBR and Partition table, and I want to use block-level backup of the C: partition. In addition, to use BackupExec to get the system state and all the files. The solution I normally use is: I install dual-boot with Linux, and once every couple of months I shutdown into linux, to use dd. This is great for me, but not great for my co-worker windows administrators who are not good with Linux or dd. Can anybody recommend a decent way to shutdown and get a good block-level hard drive backup, which I haven't already thought of? _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
