Originally Posted By: andym
Can any of you guys recommend a good cloning tool? I'd like to avoid any future fsckups by taking snapshots of all of my windows machines (Windows 2000/XP/2003) while they're working, so I can restore them sharpish in the event of a problem.


It's called "VMware Server", and it's a free download.

Install it on top of a mostly bare O/S (use Linux if you want to avoid having to purchase a second O/S license for this), and then run your Win2003 Server inside the virtual machine.

Presto -- you can now take perfect snapshots *while* it is running, at any time, and restore back to that exact state with the click of a mouse.

Cheers