We have been doing this sort of thing for years with Drive Image.  Ghost has 
been around just as long if not longer.  The two things you need with either 
product is a boot disk with correct drivers for both the network adapter and 
disk controller.  

 

But if you do want to use NBU, I highly recommend you fully patch the 
workstation before you take the pristine full backup, then fully patch the new 
XP install on the new disk before you do the restore.  Use the ALL_LOCAL_Drives 
directive to get your full backup - this will also backup Shadow Copy 
Components - this is the registry and other key system config files and 
settings.  Don't worry - this is what NBU is for; besides, you'll still have 
the 20 GB disk laying around.

 

By the way, you didn't specify what MP release you're on...  I would recommend 
updating to MP6 on both the master and the client if you're not already there.  
There are still some issues with MP6 (MP7 is in the works), but nothing that 
will prevent you from getting a solid backup and restore.  I got an updated 
version of bpdbjobs, but that's on the reporting end of things...

 

HTH,

Neil

 

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From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces 
at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 11:15 AM
To: Veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Somewhat OT: Copying a Windows XP hard disk with NBU

 

Can it be done?

Situation:

Windows XP Pro laptop with NTFS partitions on 20 GB hard drive.

Would like to replace 20 GB with 60 GB drive and have all original 
applications, documents etc... transferred.

Problem:

Windows Admins (I'm a UNIX admin) attempted to "Ghost" the system but 
apparently couldn't due to the NTFS.   Some Googling about Ghost and NTFS does 
seem to indicate there are issues doing that but I don't know enough about 
"Ghost" to speak intelligently on that.

Possible Solution:

Backup the 20 GB drive using NBU 5.1.

Install the 60 GB drive and let them do fresh XP Pro install.

Install the NBU client.

Restore the backup from the 20 GB to the 60 GB.

It seems this might cause issues due to sizes etc... that may be stored in 
system config files.   I'm wondering if the above would work or if it would 
fail miserably due to this or other things I don't know about in Windows.   I 
know enough about Windows to be dangerous but not enough to insure all the 
registry and other information is correct for the 60 GB drive.

If I couldn't do a full restore without mucking up the config is there any 
suggestion as to partial restores that would bring in my applications without 
having to reinstall each of them?

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