In <C36E003B6FEDD011AB9A00203575CA420201AA@CO>, on 02/09/98 at 12:24
PM,
Mark Evans <MEvans AT CO.SLC.UT DOT US> said:
>I need to get a good backup/restore procedure for NT 4.0 servers. We
>have taken a test machine and ran a full backup to ADSM. We then
>fdisked the machine/reinstalled NT server/restored from ADSM. This
>seemed to work. I was a little concerned with a few files that could
>not be backed up due to access denied messages.
Nothing to worry about. You will have to manually reconfigure WINS
and DHCP, however, since this stuff is stored in MSACCESS databases
(as you know). You can "work around" this problem by taking a copy of
the DHCP and WINS databases as part of your daily "stop the services,
jetpack, restart the services" procedure that is necessary in order to
keep WINS and DHCP healthy and running for more than a few days at a
time on a busy network.
>I would like to eliminate the re-install of NT server. I want to
>build a boot disk that can get me up and connected to ADSM. I then
>want to restore the entire disk image of the drive. First am I crazy.
>Second, have any of you seen a product called stack replica that
>apparently boots up in dos and connects to the ADSM system. I am
>assuming it uses the required IP stacks others have said are
>necessary. The FE from IBM mentioned it but he wasn't sure where to
>get the software from.
Firstly, there are two many files to be restored to be handled by DOS
(though a v3 client/server should be able to do it). Secondly, you
cannot write NTFS from DOS. You can boot a different copy of NT, but
you will have problems with the changing SIDs when the backup is
restored unles you are real careful.
>I am busy looking for a copy of DOS 6.0 and the LANManager 2.1 and
>2.2(we have it around here somewhere) but until I find it I would
>like to see what others have tried on the NT backup situation.
Have you looked on your NT 3.51 CD? I don't know if it is on the NT
4.0 CDs as I don't look at them very often.
>Mark L. Evans - MCSE
>mevans AT co.slc.ut DOT us
>Network Administrator
>Salt Lake County Information Services
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