Would this approach for a bare-metal restore using NTbackup work?

Hello,

As a test of our backups, I need to do a bare-metal restore of a

Windows server using a full backup taken with NTbackup.

Presuming that I'm restoring to a server with identical hardware and

drive layout, can I do the following:

- install Windows 2003 with the same service-pack level into a

different Windows directory, e.g., c:\winrestore and into no domain;

- run NTbackup and select to restore everything on all drives and the

system state, with the option to restore over any existing files;

- reboot the server after the restore completes.

The server is just an application server in a domain; it's not a DC or

anything like that.

I'm thinking that should work as it used to be the standard practice

for Backup Exec... and NTbackup is a scaled-down version of that.

Thanks for any advice,

- Alan.