Guest BBW Posted September 21, 2007 Posted September 21, 2007 Win2K3 SP2 R2 servers. All Server apps and data are on the D:. Is there any reason to backup the C: and the Windows directory...? What if DNS is standard primary...? I want to confirm there is nothing I may need to restore from the Windows directory. Thanks, Tom...
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted September 21, 2007 Posted September 21, 2007 Re: Backup Question "BBW" <tkarpowski@bennettcompany.com> wrote in message news:%23KGYKqF$HHA.4880@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > Win2K3 SP2 R2 servers. > > All Server apps and data are on the D:. > > Is there any reason to backup the C: and the Windows directory...? What > if DNS is standard primary...? > > I want to confirm there is nothing I may need to restore from the Windows > directory. > > Thanks, > Tom... You should have two separate backups: a) All of drive C:, including the system state. b) All your data. The first type of backup is useless unless you spend the time to test it by rebuilding the OS on a blank disk.
Guest BBW Posted September 21, 2007 Posted September 21, 2007 Re: Backup Question You can't backup the entire C: as there are open files. I know you can buy agents, but.... I would just re-install the server and apps, then restore the data. So all I would need in the Windows directory are any certificates off the C: right...? Thanks, Tom... "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote in message news:%23H76Y6F$HHA.1416@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > > "BBW" <tkarpowski@bennettcompany.com> wrote in message > news:%23KGYKqF$HHA.4880@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >> Win2K3 SP2 R2 servers. >> >> All Server apps and data are on the D:. >> >> Is there any reason to backup the C: and the Windows directory...? What >> if DNS is standard primary...? >> >> I want to confirm there is nothing I may need to restore from the Windows >> directory. >> >> Thanks, >> Tom... > > You should have two separate backups: > a) All of drive C:, including the system state. > b) All your data. > > The first type of backup is useless unless you spend the > time to test it by rebuilding the OS on a blank disk. >
Guest John John Posted September 21, 2007 Posted September 21, 2007 Re: Backup Question http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/fd8db289-d1ed-4662-a86c-1d9b466da0791033.mspx?mfr=true John BBW wrote: > Win2K3 SP2 R2 servers. > > All Server apps and data are on the D:. > > Is there any reason to backup the C: and the Windows directory...? What > if DNS is standard primary...? > > I want to confirm there is nothing I may need to restore from the > Windows directory. > > Thanks, > Tom...
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