Jack Coats wrote: > Does someone have a 'systems state' backup procedure for a Windows XP > system (I need to do it for a Win2003 server also, but one issue at a > time)? > > I used to do IBM TSM backups, and TSM generated a directory in the root > of the windows system drive, and it put all the needed systems state > backup there then backed that up as flat files. It is what made doing a > bear metal restore possible.
I do not use the system state, but the full OS image. I dump the content of C: with diXML (free tool) to another disk. That dump is then backed up by backuppc. Pro: full image available, easy restorable with a live Windows CD (BartPE) Cons: big, big, very big on disk (as the entire image is always different each day) on the backuppc server. But I guess that the solution with NTbackup is more disk friendly :-) -- Toni Van Remortel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
