I am not sure what the wintel team uses to try and recover the server
before they call the backup team to perform a restore. We perform full
systems backups with checkpoints. But we do not use VSP because of the
problems it creates. The wintel team uses a imaging tool where they can
build a server in about 20 minutes with all the base OS settings in
tact. We then perform a full system restore to the same box using the
win2option to tell netbackup we are going back to the same server. After
the restore is done, we reboot the server expecting to come back up as
is. But as tech support explained their are always registry keys that do
not get backed up because they are in use etc. We have tried this in a
windows 2000 and windows 203 server. Same issues. The server sometime
will not reboot and will keep rebooting. When we use a diag boot cdrom
we get in but the applications so not seem to work either. We have even
tried installing windows in a dummy directory doing a full restore,
editing the boot.ini file to point to the correct version and even that
does not work. We had support on the line for 6 hours and the senior
level engineers etc. But no matter what we could not get it working.
 


Greg Hindle 
Constellation Energy 
Data Management & Recovery 
Room 500, 1068 N. Front St. 
Baltimore, MD 21202 
410-470-1552 
greg.hindle at constellation.com <mailto:greg.hindle at constellation.com>  

 

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From: WEAVER, Simon [mailto:simon.weaver at astrium.eads.net] 
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 9:10 AM
To: Hindle, Greg; Shyam Hazari
Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore


Greg
That is ABSOLUTELY awful !!!! Which brings me onto my next point.....
what disaster recovery tools do you use NOW for your windows OS ??
 
 

Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 

EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)
Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU

Email: Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net
<mailto:Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net> 

        -----Original Message-----
        From: Hindle, Greg [mailto:Greg.Hindle at constellation.com] 
        Sent: 10 July 2006 14:00
        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 


________________________________

        From: Shyam Hazari [mailto:shazari at gmail.com] 
        Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 8:57 AM
        To: Hindle, Greg
        Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
        Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore
        
        
         
        So what was the fix ?
         
        Thanx
         
        -Shyam
        
         
        On 7/10/06, Hindle, Greg <Greg.Hindle at constellation.com> wrote: 

                Good luck. This has never worked for us. Very rarely do
we get a full system restore of windows and have it boot just fine.
                 


                Greg 
                

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                From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:
veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Shyam Hazari
                Sent: Monday, July 10, 2006 8:48 AM
                
                To: WEAVER, Simon
                Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
                Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore
                

                 
                
                I did the restore as per the DR document. Now the host
is continuously rebooting. I found the following technote, Will give it
a shot.
                 
                http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/251163.htm
                 
                Thanx
                 
                -Shyam
                
                 
                On 7/10/06, WEAVER, Simon <simon.weaver at astrium.eads.net
> wrote: 

                        Shyam
                        It should be covered in the disaster recovery
document....
                         
                        But as long as you have a bare OS and the
NetBackup client is installed and the client has been configured as
before, you should be able to perform a FULL RESTORE from a last known
backup tape. 
                         
                        The Restore can be carried out on the client, or
the MASTER SERVER that usually performs the backup for this client.
                         
                        Come back to the list if we can assist
                         
                         

                        Regards

                        Simon Weaver
                        3rd Line Technical Support 
                        Windows Domain Administrator 

                        EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)
                        Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU 

                        Email: Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net
<mailto:Simon.Weaver at Astrium-eads.net> 

                        

                                -----Original Message-----
                                From: Shyam Hazari [mailto:
shazari at gmail.com <mailto:shazari at gmail.com> ] 
                                Sent: 10 July 2006 13:17
                                To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
                                Subject: [Veritas-bu] Windows OS restore
                                
                                
                                 
                                One of our Windows system crashed during
patch install. It has been rebuilt now. I need to restore the OS from
tape. I am looking for a procedure. Is there a technote or a procedure I
can follow ?
                                 
                                Much appreciated.
                                 
                                TIA
                                 
                                -Shyam

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