Is ASR Backup to C: on system with no floppy possible ?

[Guest]

My system has one physical drive with one partition (C and no floppy disk,
only a CD/DVD combo burner. Is it possible to specify a folder on the C:
drive as the destination for the backup file and then burn it to CD: to be
used later during the restore process, or will the attempt fail because I
don't have a floppy drive for the ASR restore info files. I understand that
all you really need is the backup file because the restore info for the
floppy can be backed out from the main backup file. Thank You.

 

[Steven L Umbach]

I have never tried it but I have read that you can do a backup without the
floppy but the restore requires a floppy drive. See the link below for more
details. It is for Windows 2003 but I believe it would be the same for XP
Pro. --- Steve

http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/1196

"quote from article"

What if you have no floppy disk drive on your machine? Fortunately, you can
still use ASR to back up your system, but its a bit of a workaround. During
the ASR backup process copies of these asr.sif and asrpnp.sif files are also
saved in the %SystemRoot%\Repair folder on your server. So, when you receive
a prompt at the end of the backup process to insert a floppy, simply ignore
the prompt and instead copy asr.sif and asrpnp.sif from Repair to a network
share on another server (one that has a floppy disk drive installed). Then,
copy the files from the share on that server to a blank floppy you insert
into its drive, and you now have a working ASR floppy for your backup. Then,
go buy a USB external floppy drive, because you'll need it if you ever have
to rebuild your original server from the backup set you created. In other
words, you can perform ASR backup without a floppy, but you cannot perform
an ASR restore without one.

 

[Richard Urban]

NO!

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Richard Urban
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