W2K3 ASR Backup Floppy Disk

[Guest Wake-Up-Jeff]

W2K3 ASR backup insists on creating a floppy disk which must be located in

the A: drive.

How archaic is that? Very few of my servers have floppy disks drives.

I gather that this floppy disk stores information on the hard disk

partitions.

My question is . . . can this data be redirected to another location / disk

drive?

I haven't found a way to do it.

[Guest Wake-Up-Jeff]

Re: W2K3 ASR Backup Floppy Disk

 

Found an answer in an earlier post.

(Don't know why my Outlook Express search didn't find this. . .)

 

LauraEHunterMVP:

You can still run an ASR backup without a floppy drive. Just run the

complete

backup and cancel at the end when prompted for the floppy. You will have

a complete backup. The three files needed for the ASR floppy are found in

%windir%\repair named ASR.SIF, ASRPNP.SIF, and SETUP.LOG. These files can

be copied to any media for safekeeping, they will be needed for an ASR

restore

(%windir% usually is c:\windows).

 

To my knowledge you will need a floppy drive to perform an ASR restore, I'm

not sure if there's any workaround for this.

 

Hope this helps.

 

 

"Wake-Up-Jeff" <artvandal8@hotmail.com> wrote in message

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> W2K3 ASR backup insists on creating a floppy disk which must be located in

> the A: drive.

> How archaic is that? Very few of my servers have floppy disks drives.

> I gather that this floppy disk stores information on the hard disk

> partitions.

> My question is . . . can this data be redirected to another location /

> disk drive?

> I haven't found a way to do it.

>

[Guest Meinolf Weber]

Re: W2K3 ASR Backup Floppy Disk

 

Hello Wake-Up-Jeff,

 

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> Found an answer in an earlier post.

> (Don't know why my Outlook Express search didn't find this. . .)

> LauraEHunterMVP:

> You can still run an ASR backup without a floppy drive. Just run the

> complete

> backup and cancel at the end when prompted for the floppy. You will

> have

> a complete backup. The three files needed for the ASR floppy are found

> in

> %windir%\repair named ASR.SIF, ASRPNP.SIF, and SETUP.LOG. These files

> can

> be copied to any media for safekeeping, they will be needed for an ASR

> restore

> (%windir% usually is c:\windows).

> To my knowledge you will need a floppy drive to perform an ASR

> restore, I'm not sure if there's any workaround for this.

>

> Hope this helps.

>

> "Wake-Up-Jeff" <artvandal8@hotmail.com> wrote in message

> news:uHEo7d2nIHA.1768@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>

>> W2K3 ASR backup insists on creating a floppy disk which must be

>> located in

>> the A: drive.

>> How archaic is that? Very few of my servers have floppy disks drives.

>> I gather that this floppy disk stores information on the hard disk

>> partitions.

>> My question is . . . can this data be redirected to another location

>> /

>> disk drive?

>> I haven't found a way to do it.

[Guest Brains,None]

Re: W2K3 ASR Backup Floppy Disk

 

Hey, one can always beg from someone a USB floppy.. that usually works

in these icky cases..

 

 

Wake-Up-Jeff wrote:

> Found an answer in an earlier post.

> (Don't know why my Outlook Express search didn't find this. . .)

>

> LauraEHunterMVP:

> You can still run an ASR backup without a floppy drive. Just run the

> complete

> backup and cancel at the end when prompted for the floppy. You will have

> a complete backup. The three files needed for the ASR floppy are found in

> %windir%\repair named ASR.SIF, ASRPNP.SIF, and SETUP.LOG. These files can

> be copied to any media for safekeeping, they will be needed for an ASR

> restore

> (%windir% usually is c:\windows).

>

> To my knowledge you will need a floppy drive to perform an ASR restore, I'm

> not sure if there's any workaround for this.

>

> Hope this helps.

>

>

> "Wake-Up-Jeff" <artvandal8@hotmail.com> wrote in message

> news:uHEo7d2nIHA.1768@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

>> W2K3 ASR backup insists on creating a floppy disk which must be located in

>> the A: drive.

>> How archaic is that? Very few of my servers have floppy disks drives.

>> I gather that this floppy disk stores information on the hard disk

>> partitions.

>> My question is . . . can this data be redirected to another location /

>> disk drive?

>> I haven't found a way to do it.

>>

>

>