That blows Greg.

Both in initial Netbackup acceptance tests, as well as most subsequent
tests and recoveries, we've had no problems with the documented
procedures.
I've recovered everything from Citrix Metaframe servers (alternate
system drive, M rather than C), DCs, clusters, the works.
Only thing I haven't done is a full ground up cluster + Exchange.

the only thing I haven't been able to restore easily is MS-ADAM (Advance
Directory Application Mode?) which resides in a part of the system state
that isn't captured by the system state backup with the Version of
Windows and Netbackup we were running on the client, so we had to do
scheduled NT-Backups of the ADAM directory.

took a while to work out the procedure, but it looks like we've got it
sussed.

in some cases we've had to use the
"<install_path>\VERITAS\Netbackup\bin\w2koption -restore -same_hardware
1" option, but it's be rare enough that we don't usually bother on the
first restore attempt.

and in the case of cluster restores where the disk set is lost, we have
to use the
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\VERITAS\NetBackup\CurrentVersion\Config\Clu
ster_Database_Force_Restore" reg key to restore quorum, but that is
documented in the HA guide......

One problem we encountered early in our acceptance testing was when the
base image we installed as a restore target had more applications than
the system that we'd backed up ans were trying to restore.

See, the restore process will overwrite any existing file with what's on
tape, but will not delete files off the system if there is no
"equivalent" file on tape......so if an app was installed on the system,
then you restore over that system, overwriting some, but not all files,
there could be files remaining on the system that now conflict with what
was restored to it...hard to explain.


Paul


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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Hindle,
Greg
Sent: July 10, 2006 9:00 AM
To: Shyam Hazari
Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore


The fix for us was to install a fresh copy of the Os and ap0plications.
We then restored the application data. Never an easy process. We were on
support line for 6 hours doing this with Symantec support and everything
they had us do would never allow the server to be restored in full and
have it boot with all the apps in tack etc. After wasting so much time
we installed a fresh copy of the server build by image and reinstalled
the apps. Took about 2 hours and the server was back up. It was not a
happy experience.



Greg 
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