Bill Patten
bill_patten at embarqmail.com
Sun Jun 1 12:13:47 CDT 2008
Jim, Acronis Home will do a clone and is cheaper than Workstation. It will not allow you to use the Universal Repair. You can down load a demo of either and test it. Looking on line you can often find reduced prices for the Home version. I think the demo will even allow you to create the bootable CD so you can test the clone feature, but it probably has some kind of expiration date. When cloning Server 2003 I found that you have to be careful and not allow the server to boot with both drives still installed, it will wipe out one of them. (I suspect it re-writes the MBR on one but didn't bother to look into it. I just turn off the computer when the clone is complete and remove one of the drives before I apply power. HTH Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Lawrence" <accessd at shaw.ca> To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 9:42 AM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Really and for true, how can I... As it seems that the conscientious is that Acronis is the best package for a complete image and boot sector drive backup and restore what would be the appropriate package(s) within their product group to best perform this/these tasks? I wish to be able to easily clone a pefect copy of a master drive onto a new hard drive.... and then be able to boot up immediately. MTIA Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bill Patten Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 9:06 AM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Really and for true, how can I... Hey Steve, you are of course correct, a backup is a different beast, however as long as you have NAS or another PC with with room to store the backup on it's the same amount of work. And the added bonus of having a backup should the "New" drive fail in a couple of days. Oh and by the way, you can use Acronis to clone directly from one drive to another (But this wouldn't allow you to use the Universal Restore feature). Since server backup software is very expensive I have 2 250G SATA Drives and clone my server once a month, then run the server on the new clone to make sure that it is good copy and set the other aside for backup. Obviously my server isn't mission critical. <Grin> Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Erbach" <erbachs at gmail.com> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 3:58 AM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Really and for true, how can I... Lembit, Now, now...the reason I started this thread was to ask how to take a GOOD drive from one system and get it working in another. Backup is a different beast. Steve Erbach On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Lembit Soobik <lembit.dbamail at t-online.de> wrote: > "He said that he's familiar with > Acronis but he just carries around a spare IDE card and cable for that > kind of work. No image drive necessary." > > so, once a drive fails, he picks his IDE card and magically has all his > data > back. > so simple. > ehmmm - does he use his 60-foot flat panel for that magic? > > Lembit > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com