Clone a W2K server???

[Jason]

Is it possible or is there software that would let me
clone a Windows 2000 Server (DC)? Kind of like Ghost but
without all of the Driver headaches. I know that there
are programs that move desktop computers but what about
servers?

 

[Scott Harding - MS MVP]

Ghost is one of the best. I've never had driver headaches with it but I do
use products that they have drivers for and keep it up to date. I have it
used in our Training center to literally clone servers thousands of times
over the years....

 

[jason]

Scott,

Thank you for your response. I did try ghost and the one
headache I got was when I first logged onto the "new"
Server I had a SCSI error. The old server has IDE and
the new has SCSI. I had to do a re-install/repair and
use F6 to load the driver. When I tried installing the
driver on Bootup it gave me a "SCSI Port Start Entry
Point" error. Whatever that is? In addition it did
loose some settings like the static IP which was probably
because of Windows recognizing a new MAC. Any thoughts?
I am hoping that when I clone that it doesn't affect any
AD replication. That's my next test.

Jason

 

[Tom Stewart]

If you want to do multiple installs with the same settings, but onto different hardware, you
might look into an automated install technique, like using winnt.sif with boot cd.

 

[Scott Harding - MS MVP]

Cloning typically only works when going to the same hardware. Cloning a IDE
machine and then restoring to SCSI is obviouly going to have issues and I
would look at Tom reponse.