Simon,

Our group has studied the use of IDR extensively. Originally on the 3.4
Data Center platform and now 4.5_4. We use a W2K master/media connected
to an L700. I will try to stay relatively brief.

3.4 IDR

As stated the CD option is only for NT4 systems. W2K systems are floppy
only. The major caveat in W2K floppies is that the disk system driver
must have resided on the W2K installation CD (as in no service packs)
otherwise you will have to load the driver for your disk system
manually. In the end not much different than loading from scratch and
restoring over. It does work fine with older systems. 

4.5

We still have an outstanding call in with Veritas on 4.5 CD based IDR.
As it turns out we were finding a lot of problems that they didn't even
realize existed. The Veritas stand however is that IDR is an add on
product, not the core. I can't say that I disagree with them since IDR
is not essential for recovery. While W2K CD based IDR is supported it is
shall we say "buggy". (I will not go into how bad it can get with really
complicated systems like the ES7000) I created a document that goes over
how to accomplish a w2k cd based IDR but it is lengthy. If any one
really wants it I can make it available.

David Spearman
County of Henrico, Va.

-----Original Message-----
From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:Simon.WEAVER AT astrium-space DOT com] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 4:20 AM
To: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
Subject: [Veritas-bu] IDR for Win2k SP3

Hi guys
Setup: Master / Media Server with NBU 3.4 Patch 4 applied on all boxes,
on
NT4 SP6a Platform.

We are now introducing Windows 2000 Servers running SP3, and I am
therefore
backing them up successfully!
Yesterday I tried to use the IDR Prep Wizard in order to make the
relevant
bootable CD! The servers are HP Proliant G2 servers!

Bad news was that it appears NBU 3.4 does not support a bootable CD for
Windows 2000, only NT 4.0
So I created the 4 boot disks and the IDR Recovery Diskette!

After rebooting the Server and inserting all the disks, I was then
prompted
to insert the Win2k CD, which I done. Upon pressing return I get the
message
"Set-up did not find any hard drives installed in your computer". It is
a
basic Win2k SETUP message, and simply put, setup does not continue!

The IDR disks were created on this specific server. But does anyone know
if
IDR does not work correctly with these latest servers! They also run the
latest smart start version 6.x (made by HP).

Does anyone have a clue what I may be overlooking!?

I am going to re-create the disks again in an attempt to troubleshoot
this
more! I will also try another Server running Win2k!

Simon Weaver
NT Domain Administrator
Ext. 5544
Tel: 02392-705544 (Direct Dial)
Simon.Weaver AT Astrium-Space DOT com

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