Hi Ben,
You should have a look at a new utility out from PowerQuest
called V2i protector
http://www.powerquest.com/v2i/protector/
It allows you to take a REAL TIME image of your hard disk while
it is running and then save that to an image file. You can then
backup the image file at your leisure. The image file can be
saved to a network drive (ie. Samba share) and can also be
restored directly from the same share point. It comes with a
bootable CD that has WinXP embedded (or whatever they call it)
on it and the V2i management console.
You can even do incremental backups, so no need to take an image
of the whole thing each time.
I have absolutely no affiliation with PowerQuest or any
companies that sell it, but we had a rep come in and demo this
product recently and it was absolutely fantastic.
As for pricing, well it's not that cheap, but it depends on how
quickly you want the server back up. With this software you can
have a crashed server restored again in 10 minutes ! The RRP for
a single server license (ie. to backup one server) is approx.
AU$1900. The pricing on the website gives it at US$995. You can
also download an eval copy (timebombs after 30 days AFAIK).
In the end it's a tradeoff between expense of the software v's
the cost of downtime if you have to restore the server.
Just my $0.02
regards,
Tony.
(and this is my first post, hi to the list !)
--- Ben Zampatti <ben.zampatti AT infinitem DOT com> wrote:
> Hello, I'm not sure what I'm after can be done, but I'll ask
> anyway.
>
> I need a way to backup a whole windows 2k server to a linux
> box. This
> is how I was thinking of doing it:
>
> First off, lets say there is a 2k server that has users and
> all that
> setup on it. So start by ghosting it. Then do a fresh backup
> to the
> linux server, including all the files on the filesystem. Some
> files
> don't get copied over though because they are in use, such as
> NTUSER.dat. Lets say that every night, the backup server
> running linux
> then copies all files that have been changed on the 2k server
> to the
> backup server, and at the end of every week, msbackup is ran
> on the 2k
> server which does a system state and copies that file to the
> backup
> server. So this goes on for a few weeks.
>
> Then for some reason the 2k server crashes and you lose all
> your data.
> So, the restore process begins - you get your ghosted image,
> and then
> you have it backup to where it was when you first done you
> ghost. Now
> you need to copy all the files across from the backup server
> (including the system state) to the 2k server, overwriting
> everything.
> You put the 2k repair disk in which restores from the system
> state. My
> question is, will this work? will all permissions be restored
> and the
> like? If not, is there anything available that will do it,
> that is
> free? or am I expecting too much?
>
> Thanks for the help...
>
>
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