Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Restore of Windows to different hardware

2005-05-12 07:37:10
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restore of Windows to different hardware
From: ewilts AT ewilts DOT org (Ed Wilts)
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 06:37:10 -0500
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 11:47:29AM +0200, KBosma AT rdw DOT nl wrote:
> I'm trying to work out a method of restoring a complete Windows 2003
> system to different hardware using only NBU software. Until now I'm
> unsuccesful in my attempts. Does anyone of you have any experience with
> recovering an entire machine to (very)different hardware? Any suggestion
> would be very welcome!

Veritas sells the Bare Metal Restore option.  It's not very expensive,
but it looks like it does a pretty good job of solving this issue.  I
went to a demo at their office and it was impressive, but we haven't
purchased any licenses yet (the cost is rumored to drop when 6 comes
out).

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org