Imaging Boot Partition

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Today I tried to use BootIt NG 1.83b to create an image of the boot partition of
a Windows 2003 Server. The server has a hardware RAID. BING was able to see the
boot partition and the USB drive with no problem. After I selected the boot
partition (Image) and then pasted it to the USB drive (Paste), nothing happened.
BING works with this hardware setup normally because I previously successfully
used it to resize the boot partition.

My objective is to create an image that can be used to restore the operating
system in the event of a catastrophic failure. Other than BING, what software
will work? Acronis? Whatever it is, it needs to work from DOS so that I can get
a complete image without having to worry about open files.
 
Re: Imaging Boot Partition


"mcp6453" <mcp6453@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Today I tried to use BootIt NG 1.83b to create an image of the boot
> partition of a Windows 2003 Server. The server has a hardware RAID. BING
> was able to see the boot partition and the USB drive with no problem.
> After I selected the boot partition (Image) and then pasted it to the USB
> drive (Paste), nothing happened.
> BING works with this hardware setup normally because I previously
> successfully used it to resize the boot partition.
>
> My objective is to create an image that can be used to restore the
> operating system in the event of a catastrophic failure. Other than BING,
> what software will work? Acronis? Whatever it is, it needs to work from
> DOS so that I can get a complete image without having to worry about open
> files.

Here are a couple of methods:
- Acronis TrueImage (Server Edition)
- Bart PE Boot CD & robocopy.exe
Whichever method you choose, you must fully test it in
order to acquire the confidence that it will work when
the crunch comes.

I have successfully used the Bart method onWin2000/WinXP
machines but not on AD Servers.
 
Re: Imaging Boot Partition

We are using at this moment VMWare solutions to virtualize the servers, and
in the event of a crash I could install server version on the machine and
start to use it again (with a few of work, of course)

"mcp6453" <mcp6453@gmail.com> escribió en el mensaje
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> Today I tried to use BootIt NG 1.83b to create an image of the boot
> partition of a Windows 2003 Server. The server has a hardware RAID. BING
> was able to see the boot partition and the USB drive with no problem.
> After I selected the boot partition (Image) and then pasted it to the USB
> drive (Paste), nothing happened.
> BING works with this hardware setup normally because I previously
> successfully used it to resize the boot partition.
>
> My objective is to create an image that can be used to restore the
> operating system in the event of a catastrophic failure. Other than BING,
> what software will work? Acronis? Whatever it is, it needs to work from
> DOS so that I can get a complete image without having to worry about open
> files.
 
Re: Imaging Boot Partition

Pegasus (MVP) wrote:
> "mcp6453" <mcp6453@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23yKhEDTuIHA.6096@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> Today I tried to use BootIt NG 1.83b to create an image of the boot
>> partition of a Windows 2003 Server. The server has a hardware RAID. BING
>> was able to see the boot partition and the USB drive with no problem.
>> After I selected the boot partition (Image) and then pasted it to the USB
>> drive (Paste), nothing happened.
>> BING works with this hardware setup normally because I previously
>> successfully used it to resize the boot partition.
>>
>> My objective is to create an image that can be used to restore the
>> operating system in the event of a catastrophic failure. Other than BING,
>> what software will work? Acronis? Whatever it is, it needs to work from
>> DOS so that I can get a complete image without having to worry about open
>> files.
>
> Here are a couple of methods:
> - Acronis TrueImage (Server Edition)
> - Bart PE Boot CD & robocopy.exe
> Whichever method you choose, you must fully test it in
> order to acquire the confidence that it will work when
> the crunch comes.
>
> I have successfully used the Bart method onWin2000/WinXP
> machines but not on AD Servers.
>
>

Thanks. I think I found out what I was doing wrong with BING, but I have not
been able to test yet. Acronis sounds like a good idea. Thanks for the
recommendation. I'm not brave enough for Bart on a server.

How can I test a restore without having a second server or a spare set of hard
drives?
 
Re: Imaging Boot Partition


"mcp6453" <mcp6453@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Pegasus (MVP) wrote:
>> "mcp6453" <mcp6453@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23yKhEDTuIHA.6096@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> Today I tried to use BootIt NG 1.83b to create an image of the boot
>>> partition of a Windows 2003 Server. The server has a hardware RAID. BING
>>> was able to see the boot partition and the USB drive with no problem.
>>> After I selected the boot partition (Image) and then pasted it to the
>>> USB drive (Paste), nothing happened.
>>> BING works with this hardware setup normally because I previously
>>> successfully used it to resize the boot partition.
>>>
>>> My objective is to create an image that can be used to restore the
>>> operating system in the event of a catastrophic failure. Other than
>>> BING, what software will work? Acronis? Whatever it is, it needs to work
>>> from DOS so that I can get a complete image without having to worry
>>> about open files.
>>
>> Here are a couple of methods:
>> - Acronis TrueImage (Server Edition)
>> - Bart PE Boot CD & robocopy.exe
>> Whichever method you choose, you must fully test it in
>> order to acquire the confidence that it will work when
>> the crunch comes.
>>
>> I have successfully used the Bart method onWin2000/WinXP
>> machines but not on AD Servers.
>
> Thanks. I think I found out what I was doing wrong with BING, but I have
> not been able to test yet. Acronis sounds like a good idea. Thanks for the
> recommendation. I'm not brave enough for Bart on a server.
>
> How can I test a restore without having a second server or a spare set of
> hard drives?

You can't - you do need a set of spare disks.
 
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