Date:     October 31, 1997              Time: 9:57 AM
From:     Jerry Lawson
          The Hartford Insurance Group
(860)  547-2960          jlawson AT thehartford DOT com
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I knew I was in trouble this morning when I arrived at my desk to find the NT
I knew I was in trouble this morning when I arrived at my desk to find the NT
server guy waiting for me...... fortunately he had an NT/ADSM question and
not a disaster on his hands.

He has several large servers that we are backing up, and he is thinking about
bare metal disaster recovery.  He has seen the ADSM from a ZIP drive writeup
from the redbook, but he was thinking more along the lines of having a
skeleton NT installed on a CD.  The presumption here is that we would install
NT to a CD that is writeable, then add ADSM.  The question he had was did I
think this would work!  :-(>

After some thought, I said that I thought ADSM probably wouldn't be a big
problem.  I can think of only two times that ADSM would write to disk - the
scheduler log (which of course we won't be doing) and the error log, which we
could all hope we didn't need for this...........  To me the bigger problem
was what to do with things like the Pagefile, etc.  from NT.  And the more I
think of it, I wonder about other little "gotcha's" - like the registry.....

In short - has anyone else tried anything like this?


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                                                     Jerry
                                                     Jerry

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over..and expecting the results to
be different - Anon.