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* French, Michael <Michael.French AT savvis DOT net> [2004-08-25 13:52]:
>       Site info:
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>       Netbackup 4.5FP6
>       Solaris 8 master and media servers
>       Windows 2003 enterprise edition clients with 4.5FP6 nbu client installed
>       No Veritas BMR server
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>       We're having a problem at my company getting Netbackup to
>       successfully restore a complete Windows 2003 server.  We have had
>       several servers die recently and the restores have not worked as
>       expected.  When the systems have died, we have installed a fresh
>       version of the OS, put it on the network, left it in a workgroup,
>       and installed the NBU client.  A full restore is done of the C:\
>       drive and the system state from the last full backup and all of the
>       diffs in between.  The server goes into a continual reboot cycle
>       after the restore completes and we restart the server.  I've been
>       doing some testing and have gotten it to work if I do the restore
>       with just the last full backup image (C:\ and system state), reboot,
>       then apply the diffs for C:\ and the latest system state.  I also
>       used the command:
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> w2koption -restore -same_hardware 1
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>       This command was used both before the restore started and after it
>       completed.  At this point, it would successfully boot.  This seems
>       pretty cumbersome.  How is everyone else out in NBU land doing this?
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>       One other way I got this to work was to do a complete restore of
>       C:\, full and diffs, with no system state, and then use a dump of
>       the system state that was created by ntbackup.  The machine
>       successfully boots at this point.

That looks pretty much like what we've had to do. Windows systems
traditionally do not like getting system data dumped on them.=20

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David Rock
david AT graniteweb DOT com

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