Backup considerations

[Kitty]

Hi

I'm representing a non-commercial organization with
a running w2 k server for publishing information via iis 5.0

We have never actually considered any hardware failure
until recently and wondering about the most cheapest way
we can make backup of the boot partition and webpage's?

I have tried the demo of Symantec's Live State recovery advance
Server 3.0 and found by investigating the backup v2i file that this
actually is a copy of the whole boot partition including all the
folders and files compressed.

What's the deal with such programs? Why don't I just burn a the
whole partition on a dvd data disk. Why spending money on backup
programs? Am I missing something here?

Lets say I cannot boot into the operating system, and you have lost
hardware, data, or program files on a drive. Is it not possible to
boot on w2k cd, run recovery console and copy the entire dvd back?


Kitty

 

[dodger]

Actually taking an image of a system partition, whilst the system
partition in use is the unique thing of backup products like LiveState
Recovery. Have you ever tried copying your c:\ whilst its in use? it
wont work. Also, with LSR you can do incremental backups. So only the
bits that change on your disk are imaged at backup time. This is very
cool. I use it at work, and the boss is damn happy, and that is after
all, what keeps me paid and in a job!