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Questions tagged [system-restore]

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Favorite system recovery Live CD?

What's your system recovery CD? I've used Ultimate Boot CD and GParted. What works for you?
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Complete restore of linux system

I am familiar with using rsync to back up various files from my system but what is the best way to completely restore a machine. What I have tried in the past is: Do a basic format/reinstall from the Fedora install disks Make sure networking is…
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Looking for a free and reliable alternative to Norton Ghost

I am looking for ways to restore my system to a previous state easily. I am using Windows Vista and ubuntu.
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Is there any any merit to routinely restore a linux system, even if unnecessary?

I do fieldwork with a number of computers running ubuntu performing critical tasks doing fieldwork. The computers are similarly configured with slight variations. Since we've had some configuration issues in the past, my boss is pressing for us to…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 bare metal restore to different hardware

Scenario: I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 installation whose main disk drive is now 7 years old and showing signs of age. For the last couple of months it's been displaying increased errors and requirements to run checkdisk. I have successfully…
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How to customize a Windows boot CD

What is the easiest way to make a Windows boot CD that can be customized? Specifically I would like to run DriveSnapshot from a boot CD so that I can restore images from a USB drive. I tried UBCD a while ago but was never able to get it to work due…
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How to put my ASA 5505 into single router mode so I can restore factory defaults?

I'm trying to restore an ASA 5505 to the factory defaults. According to the instructions from several sources (e.g. http://www.mailbeyond.com/restoring-factory-defaults-to-the-cisco-asa5505-firewall-via-the-console) I need to run the following…
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Why does Server 2003 not have System Restore?

There are numerous articles about how to enable System Restore on Windows Server 2003. My question is, why is it not there in the first place? One would think a service like this is even more important on a server where long term stability is…
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Disabling System Restore on a USB External Disk on *all* Windows machines?

So I can disable System Restore on my USB External Disk by going to System Properties -> System Restore -> (selecting the drive) -> Settings -> Turn off System Restore on this drive and this works wonderfully my own system. But can I set an…
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Is this script comprehensive enough to restore IIS and Security Settings?

We want to make sure that the script below will capture all needed configuration settings to restore on a new machine IIS and all Security Settings. 'This script will dump a daily system state backup to the directory ' c:\sysstatebkup\ on every…
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What do you think about this Debian Backup strategy?

I am not really a sys admin, I am mainly a developer with some unix knowledge, and because we don;t have any competent sysadmin , I have been delegated the task to implement the backup strategy. We have many web servers, some are running Mysql…
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How can I create a simple Exchange 2010 backup solution?

I'm sure this question's been asked a dozen times in one form or another, however after much searching, there doesn't appear to be an obvious simple recovery solution for a single Exchange box. We're using Exchange 2010 on a single server, the…
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The provided share path is longer than Windows Backup can support

Previously I made a backup wbadmin start backup -backupTarget:\\ftpback-rbxx-xxx.xxx.net\nsxxxxxxx.ip-xxx-xxx-xx.eu\C\20191210_071757 -allCritical -systemState -quiet Trying to restore wbadmin start systemstaterecovery -version:12/10/2019-15:18…
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How do you converting a double partitioned hard disk to a single partion?

I have an XP Home laptop that has 2 NTFS partitions on it that I want to convert to a single NTFS partition. I haven't done this for a while but from what I recall this is as simple as running something like FDISK and deleting the 2 partitions and…
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How do you do a System State Restore on a Windows 2016 server located in a datacenter where you only have RDP and serial console access?

I am attempting to do a system state restore on a Windows Server 2016 box, however the server is in a data center (1&1) and I only have RDP and serial console access to it. I have the WindowsBackupImage folder on my d drive which should not be…
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