I experienced firsthand this past week that some backup strategies that are supposed to be simple are not always so. D'oh!
I volunteer to be a guinea pig for our I/T guys, mostly because I like to play with the cool new toys; the toy this time: Server 2008 x64 on my laptop. I have been itching to play with Hyper V for multiple reasons, but mostly because I want to have 64 bit development images for SQL 2005 and 2008 (Virtualization team blog).
Before imaging my machine from Vista x64 to Server 2008, I had taken a Norton Ghost full backup, converted that backup to a virtual disk, and also separately taken a backup of my files.
You would think reasonable safe right? A VHD, a Ghost full drive backup and Norton file backup – only problem with my grand scheme was due to my haste in moving to my new OS: I had backed all up to the same drive!
Luckily it was not a full drive failure (and as one buddy pointed out with the WD Passport drives, he frequently re-formats it to avoid corruption), but it did keep me from doing a nice and easy full restore of my image to Hyper V. Countless hours later……………….
I am back up and loving running my "old" Vista 64 machine as a Hyper V machine -- definitely a lot faster than VM Workstation and loads faster than Virtual Server 2005.
Evaluation VHDs are available for download from Microsoft here. The second link on the page is for a 32-bit version of Server 2008 to run under Virtual Server 2005.
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