[Veritas-bu] Windows 2003 restore questions
2004-08-25 15:50:44
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[Veritas-bu] Windows 2003 restore questions |
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David Rock <dave-bu AT graniteweb DOT com> (David Rock) |
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Wed, 25 Aug 2004 14:50:44 -0500 |
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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
>=20
> 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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