[AccessD] OT:Backup and Restore Complete PCs

Mark A Matte markamatte at hotmail.com
Mon Mar 24 15:28:36 CDT 2008


Hello All,

I need to search a folder with 100's of Access DBs...and find the ones with a certain table,form,qry, or module name.  Any ideas?

Thanks,

Mark A. Matte


> From: bill_patten at embarqmail.com
> To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com
> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:21:48 -0700
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT:Backup and Restore Complete PCs
>
> John,
>
> You are correct about Acronis 10 or 11 but Acronis Echo Workstation (about
> $79) coupled with Acronis Universal Restore (about $39) is designed to add
> drivers etc when restoring the image.
>
> http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATICW/universal-restore.html
>
> As I have stated before I have not personally used it yet but a friend of
> mine took an image of an old Pentium 3 with IDE's and restored it to a new
> Dell with SATA drives with no problem.
>
>
> Bill
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "jwcolby" 
> To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'"
> 
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:23 AM
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT:Backup and Restore Complete PCs
>
>
> Drew,
>
> While technically correct, what it is restoring does not contain the drivers
> for the machine being restored to. For a rather extreme example, suppose
> that the machine that you are imaging has a raid 1 array for the boot disk
> but the machine being restored to only has a single disk and no raid
> functionality. Or that the NIC chip is by a completely different company.
> Or that the chipset on one is Nvidia but on the restore machine is Intel.
> Etc.
>
> The restore might occur but the chance that the restore computer will be
> happy when it tries to boot is remote.
>
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka
> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 2:11 PM
> To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
> Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT:Backup and Restore Complete PCs
>
> Acronis True Image restore. It will restore an 'image' to a different PC,
> regardless of hardware.
>
> Drew
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 2:15 AM
> To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject: [AccessD] OT:Backup and Restore Complete PCs
>
> Dear List,
> Can anybody offer a solution.
> Last week I had a complete PC Crash which resulted in having to purchase a
> new PC.
> Data is backed up ok.
> However all the setting, updates, personalization etc has gone out of the
> window.
> Had to reinstall apps, download all updates, etc, etc. Re-install all
> printers.
> I am sure you will get the picture. It still isn't back to where it was.
>
> I need some sort of software/hardware fix so that if this happens again (not
> just for me but for anybody) then the "Fix" will restore the new PC exactly
> as the Broken PC and take into account the fact that the *hardware is
> different.*
>
> *hardware is different.* Herein lies the rub.
>
> If I use an IMAGE then it does just that - which include all hardware
> settings, OS setting, Registry setting etc.
> I cannot restore an IMAGE to a new PC which may have a completely different
> hardware configuration.
>
> Likewise, just backing up everything will not work because a Restore will
> overwrite the new PC installed setting/directories etc.
>
> I need something which works like, say, PCMover. But PCMover expects the
> PC being restored to, to be the one it was backed up from!
>
> I need to move "the stuff" to the standby PC. Ditch the broken PC. Set up
> a new PC. Restore "the stuff" from the standby PC.
>
> "The Stuff" to include *everything* not related to the physical PC.
> Printer
> drivers, apps, data, etc.
>
> Any solutions, ideas, pointers?
>
> Thanks
> Max
>
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