Windows 2008 + 2008R2 - Disaster recovery

Hi,

In october/november Microsoft announced the change in "baremetal" recovery of a Windows2008 server install. I assume that the same

procedure apply to Win2k8R2, you need to run WSB backup to image first and save it along with your complementary 3rd party backup.

Is there any new information about this. Would it even be possible for anyone to run disaster recovery like it used to be done ?

(install OS, do a NetWorker complete restore, and woala, up and running again.)

Does the API from MS even contain a possibility to do a WindowsServerBackup like backup to Networker. (instead of WSB to disk)

( Get a windows image(-AllCritical) backup saved directly to NetWorker)

From what I understand, all 3rd party vendors (and even MS DPM) is in the same boat here.

Any news or clearifications on this would much appreciated.

Best regards

Håkan Engman