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I never saw the beginning of this thread, but you may want to look at image 
backup utilities like Replica from Stac Electonics (www.stac.com) and 
SnapBack by Colombia Data Products (www.cdpi.com).  

Both of these take an image of the whole drive on a sector level.  
Restoration brings EVERYTHING back, partitions, volumes, OS, data. 


Ken 

In article <4ne401$ajr@ccnet2.ccnet.com>, kamikaze@ccnet.com says...
>
>bnystrom@smg.seagate.com (Bryan Nystrom) wrote:
>>Sorry, I don't believe we have ever claimed to restore partitioning or
>>be able to work without first reloading the base netware system first.
>>We are seriously looking into providing similar capabilities (can't
>>say more than that for now, and can't promise anything....
>
>Really? I got this info directly off of the Palindrome Web Site...
>
><begin quote>
>
>Simple Server Recovery 
>Backup Director reduces the effort in restoring a full server. You can
>easily create a recovery diskette to manage the entire
>process for you no need to completely reinstall NetWare or Backup
>Director to recover your server. Backup Director's
>built-in intelligence and automated procedures step you through the
>recovery quickly and easily to ensure your business is
>back up and running. 
>
><end quote>
>
>I have to go back through my documentation, but I believe that PBD
>creates a set of recovery diskettes so you don't have to touch the
>original Netware diskettes. I'm currently running on a RAID system so
>automating a full server restore has not been on my priority list. One
>of the reasons that I purchased PBD was because of this "feature"
>which I am planning to implement in the future. Now you are saying
>that this is not true?
>
>Randy
>

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