Re: HA Server Backup Tool/Process recommendations needed (XP Pro only)

["Tim Hawes" <timsyahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David,

I may have been lucky, but did experience what you describe. Not
because of a hardware failure my supplier changed ("upgraded") to
a
newer PC model.
I loaded the Ghost image onto the machine and while all the new
drivers weren't there, I could at least get VGA graphics and download
the new display, USB, soundcard, network card etc. drivers and install
them as needed. I then Ghost-ed off a new image of the running machine
to use as the new "backup".

It can work. Maybe I was lucky in that it would still display
something and I could then work around it. The first Ghost image was
created by someone else but isn't there a way of preparing a Windows
machine for a mobo swap? I think he did that and then took the Ghost
image so that when it was put on a fresh machine the first thing it
did was check what hardware it had.

HTH,

Tim.

On 10/31/07, David Gumbrell <david.gumbrell@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> - assuming a disaster recovery backup was in place to rebuild a clone
> machine onto new hardware, how would one handle lack of driver support
for a
> new (different model of) motherboard in the disaster recovery backup ?
I
> have successfully transplanted hard drives between motherboards/pcs by
> pre-loading new drivers, but in this circumstance one might not know
the new
> motherboard in advance. Are default drivers in XP going to be good
enough in
> the disaster image ?
>
> No doubt I am going to end up with a multi-level solution.
>
> Thanks for the enlightening discussion - keep 'em coming ...
>
> Cheers
>
> David
>
>
> On 10/31/07, Rob Iles <rob.iles@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >   IMHO, software raid is next to worthless - especially on
system/boot/os
> > disks.
> >
> > I have no experience of motherboard based hardware RAID - though
I'd be
> > cautious / nervous that if the mobo fails, you'd need to get an
identical
> > replacement in order to recover data..
> >
>
>
>
>  for online backups (internet backups, not the traditional definition
of
> > online backups) - I've found Carbonite to be rather handy. (
> > www.carbonite.com ) - - $50 USD/year for unlimited storage! runs
as a
> > background process, and performs differential backups of selected
> > files/folders. Restore time is obviously an issue if you need to
recover a
> > lot of data - - limited by your internet connection - - but it's
handy to
> > have some easy off-site backup of important files! (I'm told
they're
> > encrypted and mirrored to several data-centres). no affiliation -
just a
> > happy customer.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Rob