clewis Posted December 22, 2003 Report Share Posted December 22, 2003 Having performed a couple of restorations using the disaster recovery disk of version 5.6, I would like to recommend a change to the text. After the recovery is complete, users are told that the computer will reboot, and that this rebooting will take longer than usual because of the need to remove the temporary operating system. This is an understatement. Rebooting takes several hours, with only a blinking DOS cursor to reassure that the computer is actually doing something. A status bar would be nice. If that is not possible, the instructions should at least let the user know that 6 hours or more is normal. The disaster recovery process is stressful enough without wondering if the whole operation has frozen up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mikee Posted January 20, 2004 Report Share Posted January 20, 2004 Curious, were your restores 100% successful? Was that workstation or server restores? I somewhat don't trust DR feature - too many things can go wrong. I always preferred disk imaging software like Ghost. thanks! Mikee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rschreiber Posted February 8, 2004 Report Share Posted February 8, 2004 Actually, even more to your point: The blinking DOS cursor is not a very good indicator. It is actually driven by the hardware video board and may continue to blink even if the CPU is dead. A software-driven status bar is very much needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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