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Re: [Networker] VSS System Fileset
2010-01-05 09:02:42
Yes, it is sufficient and redundant. If you are going to go to the
trouble of setting up WSB and monitoring it to verify it is working on
every single one of your W2K8 systems, why are you bothering to
duplicate that effort with NetWorker? Please don't say it is for the
incremental file recovery option. You can do individual file recovery
with WSB too.
Supposedly all of the backup vendors were caught off-guard by
Microsoft's announcement last October that live system restore was not
supported (was in fact never supported). However, other backup vendors
have solutions out the door already. It's only EMC that is saying they
won't have a solution (aside from setting up WSB via savepnpc) until
Summer 2010!
It's disgraceful!
Frank
On 1/5/10 3:11 AM, stes AT PANDORA DOT BE wrote:
On top of this, the current EMC client does not work if you need to do a
bare metal restore. What a mess....
This is not entirely true.
Microsoft has something called 'Microsoft Windows Recovery Environment'
for 'bare metal restore', and you can use this with NetWorker.
It is sufficient to install WSB (Windows Server Backup) and do a backup to disk
(to a locally attached disk) with save set BMR (which selects the system state
and the drives).
You obtain images of your operating system under, e.g.,
E:\WindowsImageBackup
where this directory is the place where you store your images with WSB.
It is thus sufficient to do a differential/incremental backup of that
directory with NetWorker.
Make sure E:\WindowsImageBackup is in your NetWorker backup.
Next, you should be able to do a 'bare metal restore' by going to the
Windows Recovery Environment, 'F8 Repair your computer' during booting
from install CD, and then select Ŕestore your computer using a system image
that you created earlier'.
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