We have a mixed environment here. NT4 and Win2K Server machines. Our past process has been to have our Operator staff create new ERD's at the end of the month during 3rd shift. Once we started putting in Win2K Server machines, they simply continued the standard.
Then a couple of us heard recently that the ERD in Win2K Server is different from NT in that an NT ERD contains a copy of the registry. And anytime you make a significant change to an NT machine, you should make a new ERD - hence our monthly process I'm guessing. However, a Win2K ERD contains info about the current installation, but not the registry. If you use a Win2K ERD to recover from a corrupted registry, you go back to the way things were at install and would lose anything after that point. Is it possible this is just the case with Win2K Pro or is Server the same? If it's this way with server, what benefit are the ERD's after the 1st one? Should we be backing up the registry monthly on Win2K Server machines instead of ERD's?
All help is appreciated in advance!
Then a couple of us heard recently that the ERD in Win2K Server is different from NT in that an NT ERD contains a copy of the registry. And anytime you make a significant change to an NT machine, you should make a new ERD - hence our monthly process I'm guessing. However, a Win2K ERD contains info about the current installation, but not the registry. If you use a Win2K ERD to recover from a corrupted registry, you go back to the way things were at install and would lose anything after that point. Is it possible this is just the case with Win2K Pro or is Server the same? If it's this way with server, what benefit are the ERD's after the 1st one? Should we be backing up the registry monthly on Win2K Server machines instead of ERD's?
All help is appreciated in advance!
