Paul,

        I personally prefer a third party backup system that can perform a bare metal recovery without question on all platforms. Yes this cost money, but then how much is the data worth if lost?

        'Nuf said...

Curt

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Bijnens [mailto:paul.bijnens AT xplanation DOT com]
> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2003 4:17 PM
> To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
> Subject: Re: R: Win 2000?
>
>
>
> Creator wrote:
> >
> > I've never used amanda to do a bare metal recovery or
> something similar. I
> > think that at the moment Amanda is not reliable enough to
> perform a bare
> > metal restore on a Windows machine.
>
> I've *never* ever seen anyone doing a bare metal recovery of a
> windows machine.  Only using Norton Ghost, but then you need to
> shutdown your machine to do the backup.
>
> But I'm still interestested to learn...
>