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| 451337 | 2006-05-02 05:33:00 | A couple of years ago we had installed an educational program onto a standalone server running Win 2000 server. The program cost about $30,000. After about 3 weeks, the new hard drive died and although it was replaced, it cost us another $1000 to have the software re-installed. To avoid another potential disaster, I want to image the current drive onto a second drive if the original fails. What software wold you recommend to do this? It appears some are not compatible with server OS. Maurice |
Maurice (906) | ||
| 451338 | 2006-05-02 05:44:00 | Try g4u (www.feyrer.de). It is based on a bootable floppy (or better a CD-ROM) that uses NetBSD and is open source (of course costing nothing). I have tried it and it works well. It will copy any file system and is non-proprietory! John |
johnd (85) | ||
| 451339 | 2006-05-02 05:47:00 | You should look at getting professional assistance, with $30K software I assume you aren't a small business and do have some form of IT budget. For starters a real server with RAID to avoid such distasters (e.g. hard drive fails you just hotswap in a new drive rather than rebuild the server). And a regular offsite backup such as tape or a USB harddrive that you store offsite. |
superuser (7693) | ||
| 451340 | 2006-05-02 06:09:00 | I suspect this is a school, probably with not enough money for educational essentials, let alone IT "essentials". | Graham L (2) | ||
| 451341 | 2006-05-02 06:54:00 | well here is one option ghost 10 (www.ascent.co.nz) - it won't do Windows 2000 Terminal Servers though. Probably you will want to use the Norton Ghost 2003 that comes with it to make an actual image. Or maybe Acronis True Image will probably do it too. Seriously consider RAID as your first line of damage control though....... I know the feeling of not having enough $$$ to do it "properly" :D |
gibler (49) | ||
| 451342 | 2006-05-02 08:59:00 | Agree with all of the above, Win2k server std has its own way to create mirror sets available that seems to work OK, but you have to convert the drives to Dynamic (I had a Server 2k in a school with IDE Drives Mirrored since 1999 only recently replaced it for a 2003 one and it ran faultlessly). You would hope that a School that can afford the initial price of the software could get a few drives in there to mirror, as the price is not too bad per Mb. Either way its a must on a Windows server to have a Sytem Recovery Disk (esp if its a DC) | kwaka (10149) | ||
| 451343 | 2006-05-03 06:32:00 | Try g4u (www.feyrer.de). John I have tested this and am going to use it for a school - while it is not commercial it is professional. Written by somebody who was not happy with the features of Norton's Ghost. Why spend lots of money on licenses? |
johnd (85) | ||
| 451344 | 2006-05-03 06:36:00 | Would like to use Linux, Just dont have time to read 1,000,000 pages of text to get it going. Anyone with a bit of OS experience and who can read the screen can get Linux going. |
johnd (85) | ||
| 451345 | 2006-05-03 06:43:00 | I have tested this I should qualify what I mean when I say I have tested g4u. I imaged a dual boot WIndows XP Pro and Linux Fedora Core 4 workstation to a server then copied back to the workstation. Everything worked and was dead easy to use (but command prompt). Would get a litle harder if you wanted to image partitions instead of the whole drive - you have to understand the BSD method of numbering partitions - not too hard. |
johnd (85) | ||
| 451346 | 2006-05-05 10:44:00 | Anyone with a bit of OS experience and who can read the screen can get Linux going. Anyone with two bits of pipe and a sheet could build a hanglider |
kwaka (10149) | ||
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