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System State Backup in WinNT 4.0

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CigarSmokedByClinton

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I manage a network of industrial PC's in a manufacturing environment. Some of these are running Windows 2000 while some are running WinNT 4. I'm trying to make good backups of all these computers. I've already made harddrive backups with Ghost, but I want to make software backups too. The windows 2000 machines, in MS Backup, have this handy feature called System State backup. This is nice because you can take a system state backup file onto a fresh install of Win2000, run the restore utility, and it will restore all your stuff even if the hardware is different.

But as far as I can tell, WinNT does not have this feature as far as I can tell. So I have three questions:

1) Is this feature there and I just can't find it?
2) I don't have any service packs installed, will installing SP6a give me this feature?
3) Is there a 3rd party software package that can do these backups in lieu of MS backup?

Appreciate the help,

Cigar
 
Didn't exist in NT4.

You can still do a full backup with NTBackup in NT4. Be sure to back up the registry as well; I forget where that checkbox is.
 
When I start ntbackup, it asks me for my tape drive. I don't have a tape drive, I want to back it up to either the hard drive or over the network. Is this possible?

Cigar
 
Not with NT4, no.

NTbackup on NT4 can only back up to a tape device.

You *might* be able to find some freeware virtual tape device out there... but I'm not too confident.
 
Yes.

Do this: run rdisk /s (you can skip the part about writting to a floppy) then just do your normal full backup of the NT boxes.
 
Smilin: So you are suggesting to save the emergency repair stuff to the hard drive, and then to a full backup?

I guess I'm still stuck with the problem of no tape drives, so I still can't do a backup. <Sigh>

Cigar
 
Yep, you can't backup some of those files normally because they're in use. Make a copy of them on the hard drive with rdisk and you'll have them.

Ntbackup in NT does suck though. It's actually a decent program in >= 2k.
 
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