If your backup server isn't a windows box, ASR doesn't work.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Legato NetWorker discussion
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Peter Viertel
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 8:39 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Windows 2003 OS Restore - Anyone
> Done It Successfully?
>
> Have you been following the "ASR Recovery" section of
> disrec.pdf? I have not tried it myself, but it seems to be a
> very detailed procedure for Win 2003 recovery.
>
> http://web1.legato.com/infodev/publications/NetWorker/disrec/7
> .2/disrec.
> pdf
>
> note the instructions for turning an ASR backup into an ASR
> floppy are in the admin guide.... URL for this is:
>
> http://web1.legato.com/infodev/publications/NetWorker/WINDOWS/
> 7.2/winag.
> pdf
>
> Page 712
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Legato NetWorker discussion
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT listserv.temple DOT edu]On Behalf Of Jones,
> Stephen (East
> Kilbride) [OS-IE]
> Sent: Friday, 16 September 2005 8:36 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT listserv.temple DOT edu
> Subject: [Networker] Windows 2003 OS Restore - Anyone Done It
> Successfully?
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> We are having real problems restoring a Windows 2003 server
> following a catastrophic disk failure. It's an HP server with
> a Smart Array controller configured in RAID 5 formation,
> however two disks failed at the same time which meant we had
> to rebuild from scratch.
>
>
>
> We have had a number of attempts at doing the restore - results below:
>
>
>
> 1. We installed the OS manually which booted fine, however after
> doing
> the Legato Restore the system wouldn't boot - it just blue
> screened. It didn't even let us get into safe mode - we had
> the option of booting into safe mode, but when we selected it
> the server just blue screened again.
>
>
> 2. We used an older backup tape to do the second restore, just in
> case
> the most recent tape used in the first attempt had
> corruptions on it from early stages of the disk failure. This
> was slightly better, but a number of services did not start
> properly, in fact we couldn't even get into the control panel
> to check what services were running!
>
>
>
> I would have thought that a restore of the Windows OS was a
> simple task for Networker. Is anyone aware of any gotchas or
> pre-requisites that need to be done before doing the restore?
> Has anyone actually managed to get a
> Win2003
> server back to its original state using Networker? Do we need
> to use Open File Manager to guarantee that we can recover the
> OS from tape?
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen
>
>
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