As someone that had their hard drive slammed by a hard error on the boot sector on Friday the 13th of last year, I can attest that NTBACKUP works great at restores, as long as you have a windows system to boot off of. The old chicken and the egg thing. Fortunately I had an emergency hard drive that I just use for just such occasions.
Just bought a new drive, booted off the emergency drive (small slow drive but works), restored to the new drive and bingo. I had to manually reconfigure ZoneAlarm but that's actually a feature that ZA will freak out if it finds it's files moved to a new physical position. btw, it would be wise to practice a few restores using an extra drive. It's not kind of thing that you want to 'learn' while trying to get back up ASAP, and it's not as intuitive as one would hope.. . . Allen E. Elwood www.tortillafc.com Quality Code Since 1978 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Haskett Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 12:30 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [U2] [UD] backups As an aside, what does one do when rebuilding a machine from one of these backups? 1) reinstall windows 2) reinstall UD into the previous UDTHOME directory 3) drag'n drop the old directory structure into UDTHOME and everything works, all accounts now exist? This is definitely cool. Bill > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Haskett > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [U2] [UD] backups > > Ken: > > Thank you very much....ntbackup, here I come. :-) > > Bill > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ken Wallis > > Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 8:31 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: RE: [U2] [UD] backups > > > > Bill Haskett wrote: > > > > > I'm so confused. How does one go about doing a UniData (on > > > Windows) backup? > > > > The same way you back up any other application on Windows - using > > whatever windows tool you like, ideally against a quiescent > database - > > ie log everyone off, or do a dbpause. > > > > > 1) Drag & drop the @UDTHOME directory (but then how does > > one restore > > > it)? > > > > Yes, you can do that, but not everything has to live under > @UDTHOME of > > course. > > > > To restore files, you'd just drag and drop back the files you want. > > > > > 2) Is there some sort of "save" verb that I can use after I: > > > :SETTAPE 9 E:/Backups/UDBackups E:/Backups/UDBackups 512 > > > > No. > > > > > Following this, can one do something like a "SEL-RESTORE"? > > > > See above. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Ken > > ------- > > u2-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
