I've just discovered the ASR option (or at least I've ignored it in
the past). in MS Windows XP profesional and Windows server products.
Its my understanding that the ASR backs up OS related files and
hardware configuration and uses a floppy to store a little of this
info. The problem seems to be that when I use it from the wizard in
ntbackup it seems to back up everything. eg the file is 10 Gig. of a
10 Gig system when I know the OS is about 2 gig. When I look at the
file I created it seems to have everything on it ??

What gives ??

Regards

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I believe the ASR backup combines a regular full backup with a boot floppy
so that you can simply recover from bare metal back to state it was before.
So if you have 10GB  of data on the OS partition including the OS, it will
back it all up.


"steve" <stevesemple@lycos.com> wrote in message
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> I've just discovered the ASR option (or at least I've ignored it in
> the past). in MS Windows XP profesional and Windows server products.
> Its my understanding that the ASR backs up OS related files and
> hardware configuration and uses a floppy to store a little of this
> info. The problem seems to be that when I use it from the wizard in
> ntbackup it seems to back up everything. eg the file is 10 Gig. of a
> 10 Gig system when I know the OS is about 2 gig. When I look at the
> file I created it seems to have everything on it ??
>
> What gives ??
>
> Regards
>

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