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Follow-up re: Auto ERD Batch process

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by lbischofs 1 view

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In an earlier post a participant entered a great suggestion regarding automating the creation of ERD's and copying the ERD files to a server or workstation.

The batch file:
rdisk /s-
xcopy /I %systemroot%\repair\*.* \\Servername\rdisk$\%computername%

This works well, however, the amount of disk space that the files consumes it greater than what would fit on one floppy.

My followup question is:
If you ever need to do an Emergency Repair what do you do? (particulary, if these file cannot fit on one floppy)

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by spydergst1

I just verified that I can copy ERD data to a floppy. I ran rdisk /s and copied the files from the rapair directory to the floppy. The sam is there. the total size in the repair directory is 487 kb. so verify the total size. i formated the floppy first with standard 512 kb per sector.It should work.

I dod know what you are talking about though. I have seen it before. I don't know why it works sometimes and not others but I do know that it will work. keep at it it will work for you at some point.

by shardy

There is a very nice program that does this automatically onto a network share by Aelita.
I think it is at aelita.com.Theres a fee but it is worth it for a large number of servers.

by lbischofs

Thanks All...
In case anyone is following this, I also found a few other articles that may help you if you ever need to do an Emergency Repair.
Q168015
Q164471
Q158423
And Chapter 5 "Preparing for and Performing Recovery" on TechNet CD.

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