Windows Server 2003 ASR Question

[Guest Robert Lindholm]

Hello:

 

I realize that the Automated System Recovery [ASR] process is different then

the Emergency Recovery Disk [ERD] process, but its unclear if I can simply

create an ASR disk or can an ASR disk only be created as part of a NTBackup

operation?

 

With ERD, you could make an ERD floppy without having to perform an

additional backup using NTBackup, but with ASR, it seems as if you need to

"piggyback" the ASR process onto a NTBackup.

 

Is there a way to create an ASR disk without performing a NTBackup or if

that's not possible, what is the minimal NTBackup type or more specifically

how do you select the least amount of data to be backed up during the

creation of an ASR disk or am I looking at this incorrectly and should simply

be creating a new ASR disk every time I perform a backup using the NTBackup

utility?

 

Thanks,

 

Bob

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Robert Lindholm

University of Rochester