Imaging Boot Partition

[Guest mcp6453]

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.

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

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.

[Guest Gregorio Aranda]

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

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.

[Guest mcp6453]

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?

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

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.