Re: Burning a Restore CD

From: Roger Abell [MVP] (mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu)
Date: 08/02/02 

From: "Roger Abell [MVP]" <mvpNOSPAM@asu.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2002 00:40:18 -0700

Sysprep is not used for this purpose, but rather for
prestaging an initial install image that will be laid
down on multiple machines.

I would recommend that you look at using the Ghost,
which you own, on a regular basis, and also at using
the NTbackup.exe program that comes with XP (well,
some OEMs are omitting it from Home). NTbackup
can do full and difference backups, and it can be
scheduled, and runs without need to boot to non-XP.
Regular backup of the boot partition and system state
with NTbackup is a healthy thing, with the backups
staged to files which you can burn off (depends on
size of course). NTbackup can augment use of
Ghost (or its competition) to allow point-in-time
restore to times since the last Ghosting. 

--
Roger Abell
MS MVP (Windows Platform), MCSE, MCDBA
Associate Expert - Windows XP ExpertZone
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
"Poppa John" <jthomson@npacc.net> wrote in message
news:07c001c2397e$ba2e6360$9ae62ecf@tkmsftngxa02...
> Can anyone explain in non-geek how to use sysprep to burn
> a restore CD?
>
> Went to the web site to get the docs, and discovered that
> an engineer wrote them, not an English major.
>
> I just installed new hardware, and I want to use the
> fresh install to "benchmark" a point to restore to if I
> have a disaster.
>
> Yse, I also back up the data on a separate Ghost disk, so
> I will have an idiot proof (me) security for disasters.

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