Phil Brutsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/16/2008 09:21:25 PM: > How is the downtime to create a Ghost or Acronis image any different > from rebooting it, or powering it off to upgrade the memory, or pulling > the drives and putting them in a different machine?
In this instance the server hardware is not the same. He may even have to change HAL's. I dunno - I'm with everyone else, don't image an existing server. I have no problem using imaging to deploy a new OS install to bare hardware, but using imaging to move a server - and a domain controller on top of that - is just asking for problems. Why give yourself that much potential grief? Does it really take that long to spin up a new box and promote it? If a workstation flakes out, it affects one user. If a DC flakes out, how many people could it affect? Eric Eskam =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The contents of this message are mine personally and do not reflect any position of the U.S. Government "The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it." - P. B. Medawar ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
