Lembit Soobik
lembit.dbamail at t-online.de
Sat May 31 11:04:45 CDT 2008
"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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Erbach" <erbachs at gmail.com> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 3:13 AM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Really and for true, how can I... Bill, » PS, No I do not work for or have any affiliation with Acronis. « Heh! I'm taking the advice of our network admin mainly because the guy is sharp and he is without a doubt the biggest uber-geek I've ever met. He works the equivalent of two full-time jobs and makes a solid six-figure income. He doesn't drive, drink, smoke, or toke. His house is going to be paid off in eight years, not 30. He has a large flat panel monitor installed over his bed so that he can work there. He has 62 terabytes of storage in his home web servers. A 60-foot mast in his back yard has a video camera he can control via the Internet (he showed it to me the 2nd or 3rd day I started to work at our company). The mast also has a high bandwidth wireless connection to the office network (he lives about four blocks away). He had a fingerprint scanner entry system but has gone to a card swiping system. He has a mini laptop computer (about the size of a paperback book) that doubles as his phone. He wrote a program that runs under Windows on that little thing. One day he ran it while I was standing there and opened the security door to the network room via the cell phone network. His electric bill is about 4-5 times the normal because of all the A/C and server power he draws. I could go on, but you get the idea. 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. Steve Erbach Neenah, WI USA On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Bill Patten <bill_patten at embarqmail.com> wrote: > Steve, before you go to all that trouble, and you can easily practice on > a > different PC, check out Acronis Universal Restore. It has many of the > drivers needed built into it. If you look on there site you will find > Acronis has a package deal for Echo Workstation and Universal restore for > about $89. I know personally of 2 cases where it saved the day. > > I had a friend that tried to restore a PC image on a laptop. It would not > work, and windows repair would not fix it. He used the Universal repair > and > on the first try got the image working. > > I have a Vista 64 machine that I set up with Raid 0 etc. and had all kinds > of problems with the Intel/Dell/64 bit combination. One of the suggested > solutions was to revert back to the Auto Raid choice in the ROM Bios. It > would not boot. A restore would not work, booting with the Vista disk and > repair would not work. So I tested trying to install a fresh Vista > installation with that configuration and it worked, indicating that Vista > install did in fact have the correct drivers. > > So then I made an image using Acronis Workstation Echo, created a boot CD > from the Acronis install and clicked the use Universal Restore when I > built > it. > > Made the change in the bios, installed a fresh SATA drive, booted to the > CD > and viola, it worked. The system has been working for about a month now > and > is much more stable the before. > > It's a fairly low risk deal as long has you hang on to the original disk, > you can always go back if needed. And by the way I did not use DVD's or > anything just placed the image on my server, then when I booted on boot > cd, > went across the network and restored. Oh Acronis Boot disk will find most > networks and even USB's > > If I can be of more help or you have any questions give me a shout. > > > Bill > > > PS, No I do not work for or have any affiliation with Acronis. > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.4/1475 - Release Date: 30.05.2008 14:53