An image of the entire drive c is a requirement

Please see MS article below

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/249694

This has the following text

"System State Recovery after a new installation of Windows Server 2008 on new 
hardware or same hardware This kind of recovery is not supported. 

Windows Server Backup does not block recovery on a newly-installed operating 
system. Instead, it warns that this operation is not supported. This feature is 
used only as a last-ditch support effort to reclaim data from a failed server 
and is not a supported backup feature 

System State Recover is only supported on the same operating system instance. 
It is not supported on a reinstalled operating system on the same or different 
hardware"

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of Matthew Huff
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 4:25 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] DR enabled backup of Windows Server 2008

For the short term we created a share on our NetApp NAS box and have setup 
windows backup to run every Friday in the early evening. We do a full backup of 
the Netapp on Friday nights. We are also running the regular Legato client on 
the 2008 machines so that individual files are backed up. Hopefully this will 
get us along until March.

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-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On 
Behalf Of Joey Admin
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 5:29 AM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] DR enabled backup of Windows Server 2008

Hi folks,

I'm working on this issue with Server 2008, that it's not possible to do DR 
restore with NetWorker alone. EMC is now recommending to use the Windows 
Server Backup utility to create an image of drive C: to be used in DR 
purposes.

How are you solving this? Are you using the savepnpc method described in 
the NetWorker procedure generator? I find it almost unusable because it 
will create an image of the entire drive C: 

Does anyone here know if it's enough to only have the systemstate backup? 
It can be created with this command:

wbadmin start systemstatebackup -backuptarget:<path>

I would be very interested in knowing how other organizations are solving 
this and how it's working.

Joey

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