>Q: any products/stuff/kung-fu for booting/restoring windows servers >from images via network ? > >something like nim or TSM sysback
As far as I know, there is no way to boot Windows over a network with a normal hardware configuration (some servers made for factory environments boot from remote disks using customized BIOS code that maps requests for local disk I/O into some kind of network protocol). There are a some options for booting from removable media and restoring a Windows operating system over a network. Cristie BMR (Bare Metal Recovery) is fairly close to being the Windows counterpart of Sysback. Ghost is distinctly different in approach; it stores copies of disk blocks rather than copies of files. I have never heard of anyone using Ghost to maintain individualized backups of multiple systems, but it is commonly used as a recovery mechanism for large populations of identically configured workstations. If one of the workstations suffers a disk failure or corruption of Windows, the original configuration is restored from Ghost. Workstations that use this approach are normally configured to put user documents on file servers rather than local disk.
