jjj0923 Posted April 28, 2009 Report Share Posted April 28, 2009 Can this product do a dissimilar image restore? I have plenty of backup servers to my live ones, but no two are exactly the same and I'd like to be able to restore to a different vendors box if possible in the event of a server failure. they're all Windows 2003 Servers though... ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 That's a Windows limitation, not a Retrospect limitation. If you can take the boot hard drive from a server, connect it to another server and just boot, then Retrospect can do a "bare metal restore", too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjj0923 Posted April 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 That's a Windows limitation, not a Retrospect limitation. If you can take the boot hard drive from a server, connect it to another server and just boot, then Retrospect can do a "bare metal restore", too. that might be a problem since all of our servers run on raid arrays.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted April 29, 2009 Report Share Posted April 29, 2009 But you get the idea, right? It's a Windows driver problem, not a Retrospect problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjj0923 Posted April 30, 2009 Author Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 That's a Windows limitation, not a Retrospect limitation. If you can take the boot hard drive from a server, connect it to another server and just boot, then Retrospect can do a "bare metal restore", too. I'm not sure I understand you. My understanding of a BMR is that the OS is also restored. Are you saying that is I can boot the new computer using the boot drive from he old computer, then I can restore onto that same drive? or a different drive? and if a different drive will the different drive be bootable in the new computer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennart_T Posted April 30, 2009 Report Share Posted April 30, 2009 My understanding of a BMR is that the OS is also restored. Yes. If that OS is able to boot the new hardware (meaning it contains all driver for the new hardware), you should have no problems. The problem is that Windows is sometimes called "driver hell". So if the new hardware requires one or more drivers not installed on the old hardware, you can't do a bare metal restore (with or without Retrospect). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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