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Posted by Steven L Umbach on September 17, 2006, 2:12 pm
Please log in for more thread options You could also try out ASR on any old computer that has XP Pro installed on
it or can be installed on it. It should give you an idea of how it works
specific to most your questions.
Steve
> Thanks, Steven, kind of what i was thinking, so it's good to have it
> confirmed.
> --I hate to blow away a perfectly good server install to test this ;-),
> but as you say better with a test machine than production to work the bugs
> out.--
>
>>I have not used ASR enough to definitively answer your question and I have
>>seen conflicting information in documents. I believe it is "supposed" to
>>restore everything on the system drive partition so if that is where your
>>applications are it should restore them. Having said that this is
>>something you should try out on a test computer which also will give you
>>experience in disaster recovery rather that the first time doing it in a
>>panic. In any case it probably would not work to install applications to
>>the system drive partition before restoring an ASR backup. Restoring to
>>different hardware does complicate disaster recovery though it may work
>>that Plug and Play detects new hardware or work if you do a repair
>>installation. The link below is from Microsoft on disaster recovery to
>>different hardware for Active Directory but may contain helpful
>>information for a non domain controller.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B263532
>>
>>> Does ASR restore applications such as Antivirus software and any other
>>> 3rd party applications, or does it only restore Account information.
>>>
>>> If it doesn't restore the applications, do you reinsstall them before
>>> doing ASR so that it restores their state as well or is my approach here
>>> totally screwy..
>>>
>>> The reading I've done doesn't seem to address that directly.
>>>
>>> Can anyone recommend an approach to restoring a server that is detroyed
>>> to different hardware, maintaining account and system information, in
>>> case replacement hardware is not available?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> TimeTraveller.
>>>
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