Quote Originally Posted by nihil View Post
Simple, you just install your ghosted image of your standard installation, or your backup.................hell! you have forgotten you would have to reinstall all your applications and data as well?
Go StorageCrafts ShadowProtect..... Hardware Independant Restore or HIR - Also Backup Image Mounting and VM would help with such a problem too.

Excuse the plug - but this product really has saved me a tonne of time and worry, such as restoring an entire server including applications, network and domain infrastructure - onto entirely different hardware, and taking less than an hour from USB HDD backup.

So for these patches, you would restore a backup onto a 'test server' going through the instructions provided, apply the patch, do the restarts etc etc and then backup the server and then restore to the 'live server' taking < 10mins for a 20gb sys partition.

Blah blah blah etc etc

Peace

CTO