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.
----- Original Message ----- From: Peter Cushing To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 4:20 AM Subject: Re: [NF] Backup strategy Christof Wollenhaupt wrote: > As far as I can see this, your scheme will only protect you against hardware > failures. It won't help if your office is broken into or if the entire > building burns down. In this case you absolutely need your software install > packages to get started. Project is important, but without the software and > the licenses you can't use them. > We have most of our servers imaged somewhere else with another machine on another site so we can be up and running quickly. All the VM stuff is easy to get going as well. > This aside the question is when do you do the backup? Is it quick enough to > be done during the lunch break? Then you could plug in the USB stick, go to > lunch and put the stick into your pocket. If it runs longer than that it's > unlikely that someone will wait in the evening for the backup to complete, > especially when the performance degrades. So you would need to pick it up in > the morning and be always two days behind with the backup. > > The backup we are talking about is done every night. Our main database apps are zipped up along with other things like mail zips and we burn the zip files onto DVD next day. At the moment we back these files onto a REV drive and have a large backup window to do it. At lunch an app runs to make a lunchtime backup of some fox data. It just does a COPY TO to another location. We started doing this when the main stock DBF went west at about 5:50 pm so leaving us to either go to the previous day's data or use that one file from the previous day and just apply the transactions to it. Thanks, Peter ---------------------------------------------------------------- Rajan Imports has changed - we are now Whispering Smith Ltd. For more information see our website at www.whisperingsmith.com Please update your address book with my new email address: [email protected] . This communication is intended for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. The contents are confidential and may be protected in law. Unauthorised use, copying or disclosure of any of it may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone or email. www.whisperingsmith.com Whispering Smith Ltd Head Office:61 Great Ducie Street, Manchester M3 1RR. Tel:0161 831 3700 Fax:0161 831 3715 London Office:17-19 Foley Street, London W1W 6DW Tel:0207 299 7960 [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ 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/1001410c5556456a9b8f7b692188b...@w2k3s02 ** 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.
