Server 2003 imaging software

[timbo343]

Right, im wantin to image our 2003 servers incase the c drve happens to fail on one. Does anyone know of any software that will do this. I keep askin around but people cant seem to grasp what i want, i dont want to image a client on XP im wanting to image a 2003 server and save the image in a secure location.

 

Any ideas let me know thanks

[Geoff]

Use ntbackup.

[webman]

http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/

[timbo343]

my suppliers keep banging on about the symantec ghost solutions suite. Now in the symantec spec it states it will only do upto XP not 2003... is this true??

[Netman]

Acronis TrueImage server is good but has gone up in price costs about £375 per server now 8O

http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATISWin/

[stevegwernyfed14]

Had to do this myself a couple of weeks back. Basically, had to replace all the drives on a Dell Poweredge 2500 server running W3k - had to fit larger drives.

I plugged in an Adaptec IDE RAID Card (1220a?) with 2 stripped 40 gb drives (just to give enough storage space) and then used Norton Ghost 2002 to Ghost the C drive to an image file on the IDE drives.

I then replaced the 3 drives forming the C drive, rebuilt and scrubed the array, then ghosted the drive back from the image on the IDE drives.

Had to do the same for the D drive as well. All worked perfectly!

 

I did have several 'normal' backups on standby in case but thankfully didn't need them.

 

In short, get hold of Norton Ghost 2002. I have got Norton Ghost 10 as well but find it a right pain - 2002 is soo much easier to use.

 

Steve