Back up/Image Windows to install on another server?

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Hey there,

Not something I've done before admittedly so wondering what others find the best practice to do so?

Situation is that we have a server with Windows Server 2012 R2 on with a bunch of software installed already and want to be able to build new servers and put this same Windows install on rather than performing a fresh installation and installing software again.

These are physical servers, not virtual.

Have tried R1soft bare metal restore but the server doesn't boot up unfortunately, could probably fix that but looking for a solution that works first time every time.

Advice or suggestions appreciated, thanks.
 
Are these running the exact same hardware or different?

If they are different that's probably why the server didn't boot up.

The server OS will be trying to load drivers for hardware that doesn't exist.
 
swain90 said:
Are these running the exact same hardware or different?

If they are different that's probably why the server didn't boot up.

The server OS will be trying to load drivers for hardware that doesn't exist.
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Very similar hardware, however I'm not sure that's the reason as we can take the HDD out of Server A and put it in Server B and it'll boot just fine.
 
Ahh right, well that helps narrow down the issue.

I use clonezilla, the only limitations i've found is if the source drive is larger the target drive you're going to have problems. I tend to do a whole disk backup and then restore the disk on the new drive as just doing partitions can get a bit tricky.

Clonezilla can do disk to disk mirroring or disk to device and save as an image. it also supports saving and restoring images from a network location.
 
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