On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 1:33 PM, KAM.covad<[email protected]> wrote: > We use Acronis to image our critical computers. It is great and allows an > easy restore of individual files, folders or even the entire system with the > boot sector in case of a total failure. The only problem is that if you > restore to a completely different computer with totally different drivers > (like restoring an Intel system to an AMD system) it will not boot. You won't > lose any files, but like Christof said, you are up the creek if you don't > have your install software, license, product keys, etc because you will need > to reinstall all the applications. I have wondered if I could use add/delete > programs to uninstall the drivers before making an image if that would solve > the problem, but I have not gotten around to testing that. pressing F8 and > using safe and/or vga boot does not work, at least it has failed the 2 times > we tried. If Microsoft would 'modularize' the os, it would be possible to > backup without the drivers, but I guess that is asking too much. --------------------------------------------
I have this defined in our Emergency Restore Documents for our data centers. When I stated that we needed to have UPS & FedEx account #s in the cages so anyone could open the rack up and have 99% of what was needed to get any of the servers back to operational, pending new hardware. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer SQL Server DBA Web and Winform Development Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
