[dba-Tech] BartPE

Jim,

BartPE has a plugin for "selfImage" which is supposed to do the same thing
and then allow you to use BartPE to (apparently) reinstall the image.

I really have to get this handled.  Doing server reinstalls is a PITA and
real time waster.

My thoughts are to create the image and place it right out on a hard disk
already installed on the server on one of the SATA ports.  Then whatever I
use to boot up can just yank that image and deposit it back on the boot
partition, reboot and go.  Doing that would allow me to have a "system"
where I do the same on all of my servers and be trained and ready the next
time.  These servers are too valuable and my time is too valuable to be
screwing around with this every time a boot problem appears.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 
-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 12:17 AM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] BartPE

Hi John:

You can see the entire drive but the selection of the file manager is not
the same as in windows. It took me a while to become conversant with it but
now it is second nature as much of much job is bringing the dead back to
life. It is excellent for that.

The program I would recommend to you for a full drive backup is ImageDrive
XML (http://www.runtime.org/downloads.htm). You can backup an entire drive
in shadow mode in the background while the drive is being used. Though the
above program is delivered for free they have a group of excellent
applications for managing drives in multiple formats. 

HTH
Jim

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 8:33 PM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'; 'Discussion of
Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: [dba-Tech] BartPE

Well I finally rebuilt my server which was not booting but had windows2k3
installed on it.  I was hoping to use the BartPE to manage to edit or
otherwise fix the boot disk.  Having rebuilt my server, suddenly I can build
a BartPE disk on that machine.  The odd part is that even though I am
specifying an I386 for Windows 2003, it displays WindowsXP as the BartPE
boots.

I was also expecting more, not knowing what to expect.  I kind of thought I
was booting into windows and would be able to use it as windows, see the
hard disks, etc.  Not so.  This whole thing is more than I want to learn.
8-(

So off I go searching for a way to image my Windows 2003 install and restore
that image later.  I have a 200g bootable raid 6 partition with Windows 2003
fully installed, including software firewall, SQL Server, Visual Studio,
WinRar etc.  All the stuff that I need to get back up and running in a
hurry.  I have a spare 250g hard disk sitting at the end of a SATA which I
would like to place an image of the disk on, and be able to copy from that
disk back to the raid partition.  I just have to figure out how to do that.


The BartPE MIGHT be the answer, I am not sure.  How to boot and see the raid
drives and the SATA drive is the question, with a program that will copy
that image back to the raid drive C: and allow a boot from that drive C:

I have Acronis TrueImage but it is the "home" which is NOT supposed to be
used on Servers, and they want a cool $600 for the one that will run on
servers.  Yikes.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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