04-21-2009, 03:41 PM
OK.. despite it having been my nominal "spring break week off" last week, I have been here at work for the last 9 days setting up a new Windows 2003 Server as a "one trick pony" for a new School Information System.
I have managed to throw the SIS vendor " a new one" - a problem that stumped them for the last week.
Fortunately, it's FINALLY resolved and I can proceed with "Step 3" in the manual.
However, after going through the "Tech Support Hell" for the last week - I really want to make a backup of this particular point in time, before I install any of the 57 Windows Updates..
Can anyone put me onto a software that (conceptually, at least) will make a backup "disk image" that I can keep safe in case I fubar the Server (again...)? I have drive space (3 extra HD's in the server to eventually be used for multiple daily backups). But I do not have backup SOFTWARE yet...
Some day soon I'm going to write a long ranting post about how Windows make every single simple operation complicated... but not today.
I have managed to throw the SIS vendor " a new one" - a problem that stumped them for the last week.
Fortunately, it's FINALLY resolved and I can proceed with "Step 3" in the manual.
However, after going through the "Tech Support Hell" for the last week - I really want to make a backup of this particular point in time, before I install any of the 57 Windows Updates..
Can anyone put me onto a software that (conceptually, at least) will make a backup "disk image" that I can keep safe in case I fubar the Server (again...)? I have drive space (3 extra HD's in the server to eventually be used for multiple daily backups). But I do not have backup SOFTWARE yet...
Some day soon I'm going to write a long ranting post about how Windows make every single simple operation complicated... but not today.