System state backup

[wingene]

When we make a system state backup. Do we than still need to make a backup of the WINDOWS folder?

[AmolB · Accepted solution]

Hi 

 To recover from disaster you need to have a backup of C drive and the System state 

 along with the shadow copy components. 

 EDIT: Yes you need to backup the Windows directory.

[CraigV]

...not necessarily. I have recovered a system that crashed last year by restoring the data, and then the System State. I had to rebuild the server from scratch, but it is possible to restore the server just with data + System State!

[sammy_perfect]

Hi,

Yes it essential to have C ,System state, Shadow copy component backup  at same point for doing disaster recovery of that server

The link below recommend the things for doing disaster recovery in term of backup exec free option IDR & also would be applicable for manual disaster recovery for server

http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO24224

Thank You

[sammy_perfect]

Hi ,

Any updates  & if the suggestion was helpful please mark this as solution so that we can close the thread

Thank You