Windows 2003 image

23 Mar 2005 11:15 AM

Giobibo

I have a PC with a RAID-1 array and Windwos 2003 Server.

I want to create an image of the system drive and thinking of several
alternatives:

1) using a native Windows 2003 tool (which?)
2) Norton Ghost 9
3) Acronis True Image 8

I do not know which is the best way to secure the system drive.
In past I used ghost on NT/2000 pc and worked very well, but it seems
that under w2003 and raid-1 could be problems.

Does windows 2003 have native and reliable tools to achieve drive image
or system backup?

Thank you for replying.

23 Mar 2005 11:30 AM

jack tinker

Have you looked at ASR?
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/asr_overview.asp

There are no imaging tools, at least not for what you are trying to achieve.

JT

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"Giobibo" <giob***@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I have a PC with a RAID-1 array and Windwos 2003 Server.
>
> I want to create an image of the system drive and thinking of several
> alternatives:
>
> 1) using a native Windows 2003 tool (which?)
> 2) Norton Ghost 9
> 3) Acronis True Image 8
>
> I do not know which is the best way to secure the system drive.
> In past I used ghost on NT/2000 pc and worked very well, but it seems that
> under w2003 and raid-1 could be problems.
>
> Does windows 2003 have native and reliable tools to achieve drive image or
> system backup?
>
> Thank you for replying.

23 Mar 2005 12:44 PM

Giobibo

jack tinker wrote:

> Have you looked at ASR?
> http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/asr_overview.asp
>
> There are no imaging tools, at least not for what you are trying to achieve.

Thank you for your reply.

ASR seems to be a last-start-option, but does not make backup of the
whole system (installation directory, data, user folders, etc...) as an
imaging tool does.

Thus, if in w2003 there are no imaging tools, I have to look at norton
ghost or true image.

But ghost seems to have problem with raid system.
True image would be the right one.

Any further suggestion?

Thank you for replying.

23 Mar 2005 1:04 PM

CyberDroog

On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 13:44:03 +0100, Giobibo <giob***@yahoo.com> wrote:

>But ghost seems to have problem with raid system.
>True image would be the right one.

I use Ghost Corporate v8.0 with RAID systems all the time and never had a
problem. Note that this is with a DOS boot.

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25 Mar 2005 10:08 AM

Hank Arnold

Do you do it from diskette or from a Ghost partition on the server? I had
originally set up all our workstations and servers (we have the CE V9.0)
with the partitions and services, but our High Availability software for
our SQL and Exchange failover clusters had a problem with this service
running. This means I have to configure them to image using diskette. We
will be setting up a replacement cluster with all drives set up as RAID.
I've never set up a Ghost boot diskette with RAID. If you've done it, any
tips would be greatly appreciate...

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Regards,
Hank Arnold

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> I use Ghost Corporate v8.0 with RAID systems all the time and never had a
> problem. Note that this is with a DOS boot.

25 Mar 2005 11:22 AM

CyberDroog

On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 05:08:59 -0500, "Hank Arnold" <rasi***@aol.com> wrote:

>Do you do it from diskette or from a Ghost partition on the server? I had
>originally set up all our workstations and servers (we have the CE V9.0)
>with the partitions and services, but our High Availability software for
>our SQL and Exchange failover clusters had a problem with this service
>running. This means I have to configure them to image using diskette. We
>will be setting up a replacement cluster with all drives set up as RAID.
>I've never set up a Ghost boot diskette with RAID. If you've done it, any
>tips would be greatly appreciate...

I do with either a disk, or a DOS boot partition, depending on the
installation. I like to have a small DOS boot partition for maintenance
purposes, with things like Ghost, NTFSDOS, and other utilities available.
(ERD Commander is a must have also, but that is a boot CD.)

I've never used Ghost with software RAID - at least not with a RAID 5
volume. Mirrored volumes are no problem. When it comes to RAID however, I
would always opt for hardware RAID, in which case Ghost should work fine.

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