Bill,
For running under Windows Server you need software that is more
expensive. They basically feature limit it so they can charge you more
for versions that run on Server. If you pull the drive and put it into
a workstation, you can use any regular ghosting utility, and that might
well be the way to go.
Symantec sells a server version under the name Live State Recovery,
which is formerly Powerquest V2i Protector. This is one of a new
category of backup products that are termed "bare metal recovery". They
essentially ghost only the used sectors of the drive into a compressed
image, and this makes backups much faster and it resolves issues with
locked files. I have been using V2i Protector since a bad experience
rebuilding from BackupExec and I have found it to be very reliable, even
being able to manage restoring MS SQL server without any special
handling. The Acronics software that Kevin pointed out is of the same
class of software, and it sells for a bit less than Symantec's solution,
but I have no experience with it.
So if you are only looking to ghost, I would pull the drive from the
server and put it into a workstation where you can run a cheap version
of a ghosting utility, but if you are also looking for a backup utility,
bare metal recovery seems to be the way to go these days.
Matt
Bill Green dfn Systems wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sanford Whiteman"
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Assuming your current single drive is not on the RAID controller, just
make sure to install the RAID driver on the OS _before_ cloning it
using Ghost or equivalent. If you can actually physically install the
RAID controller in the existing machine, even better, as you'll then
be sure the driver is picking up the hardware.
Thanks for all the great advise everyone!
While pricing Ghost 10.0, I noted that the OS requirements for Win2000
specifies "Professional Only". What version have you used successfully
with 2000 Server?
Bill
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