system state backup recommendations

[BLMuzzy]

Do any of you enforce sytem state backups on XP Pro clients? I'm thinking
of having users schedule it weekly to either a local folder which is backed
up daily, or directly to a network share. Anyone else do something similar
or have strong thoughts about doing so?

thanks!
Bob

 

[POP]

Do any of you enforce sytem state backups on XP Pro clients?
I'm thinking of having users schedule it weekly to either a
local folder which is backed up daily, or directly to a network
share. Anyone else do something similar or have strong
thoughts about doing so?

thanks!
Bob

Personal opinion only, but ... I think it's a good idea. It's an
easy way to restore the registry and support files if ever
needed. I do it routinely for my own machine; more inclusive
than Restore Points and more likelyh to stil be available when I
need it.

Pop

 

[Tim Judd]

Personal opinion only, but ... I think it's a good idea. It's an
easy way to restore the registry and support files if ever
needed. I do it routinely for my own machine; more inclusive
than Restore Points and more likelyh to stil be available when I
need it.

Pop

I've tried variants of this -- it seems to backup fine, but when I tried
to do it with a bootable preinstall environment CD, it couldn't get it
to restore at all. I forcibly made it "broken" in a test environment by
installing a windows OS, backing it up, verifying the backup, then
formatting the system partition. The backup was on a 2nd partition.

I couldn't get it to work in a controlled environment, so I abandoned
the idea for a backup purpose. Others in newsgroups, bulletin board
systems, etc didn't think ntbackup was ever going to work for a
reimaging (or likely) scenario, just a "file copy" method.. I couldn't
get it to work, and would welcome ideas for getting it to work based on
a "restorable partition" type of setup.

YMMV, HTH, Good luck,

 

[BLMuzzy]

If you restored partition 1 from an image, what was the point of then
restoring the system state from partition 2, other than to test the process?
Because it seems all the info about installed apps would be mis-matched
between the image & the old system state.