Greetings r/sysadmin,
I have two Windows Server 2000 boxes that i need to clone metal to metal, or p2v. Sounds easy enough, but here's the catch: One machine is stuck at S2000 Service Pack 2, and the other at Service Pack 3. I'm not able to apply SP4 (which would solve all my issues) until i can prove it will not break the applications on the server. This has made it impossible for me to virtualize, but i figure if i can clone the machine to identical hardware, then i'm golden.
My question is this, what should i use to do the cloning? I got an acronis trial but that didn't want to work for me. Now i'm considering setting up a clonezilla server, but i'm not much of a linux guy, so i'd have to teach myself to install / configure linux in addition to trying the clone.
any help is appreciated, thanks!
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