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Thanks All. &nbsp;We played with all of these options with success in various scenarios.
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Hi Experts,<br />
Really easy one I think!<br />
I have a 2008R2 Server that has a non Raid hard disk. &nbsp;This is showing signs of stopping. &nbsp;I'd like to take a full image of the drive to an external device, swap the HDD, and then image the new drive with that from the external device.<br />
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Reasons being that the server has so much going on, it will take weeks to do manually.<br />
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So, what would you use as the preferred software to complete the imaging and recovery?<br />
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Thanks
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Hi Experts,
Really easy one I think!
I have a 2008R2 Server that has a non Raid hard disk.  This is showing signs of stopping.  I'd like to take a full image of the drive to an external device, swap the HDD, and then image the new drive with that from the external device.

Reasons being that the server has so much going on, it will take weeks to do manually.

So, what would you use as the preferred software to complete the imaging and recovery?

Thanks

Thanks All.  We played with all of these options with success in various scenarios.

Taking an Image of a Working Server

Hi Experts,
Really easy one I think!
I have a 2008R2 Server that has a non Raid hard disk.  This is showing signs of stopping.  I&#39;d like to take a full image of the drive to an external device, swap the HDD, and then image the new drive with that from the external device.

Reasons being that the server has so much going on, it will take weeks to do manually.

So, what would you use as the preferred software to complete the imaging and recovery?

Thanks

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