February 7, 2012 at 8:46 am
I have 5 Servers. Two are SQL 2008 server setting on a 2008 server OS. Two SQL 2005 servers running on 2003 server OS. One Domain Controllers using 2008 server OS. They are all HP proliant.
In addition to that I have 20 windows XP desktops.
I need some software that will allow me to capture images of the machines at some point of time. I need something that works on both servers and clients. I only need to do full backups/images, no need for differential and such.
Previously I have used Ghost for desktops, but I don't think it supports imaging servers.
What is your professional opinion?
Thanks
February 7, 2012 at 9:14 am
Is this for DR? Or another purpose? There are P2V tools (physical to virtual) that can capture an image of a machine for migration purposes, but this can work well for capturing a server image. Not sure if you can V2P it, but check.
Other than that, I'd think the various Windows backup software vendors could help here, but I don't have a recommendation.
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February 7, 2012 at 9:18 am
Not sure how much help this is but you may want to look into a virtualization product like VMware or Hyper-V. They have the capability to take an image of your server. Who knows - maybe this is good time to virtualize?
February 7, 2012 at 11:19 am
This is for DR purposes.
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