David
What is the bug, as we use MP2 NBU 5.1
 
can you provide details on this?
 
Thanks

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-----Original Message-----
From: Spearman, David [mailto:spe08 at co.henrico.va.us] 
Sent: 02 August 2006 11:33
To: Wilkinson, Tim; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restoring entire servers (Windows)


Tim,
 
Windows is the easiest restore in the entire venue. From scratch, load the
OS (patched to whatever level your version of NBU requires) and leave it in
the workgroup mode with a workgroup having the same name as the domain it
was in. Load the nbu agent, partition the drive, then do a FULL resore,
reboot, done. I have actually done this across disimiliar platforms, albeit
you have to be a bit tricky. In short we will never waste money on windows
bmr, it's just to easy to do it the old fashioned way. The only caveats are
1. Domain Comtrollers require a reboot into domain controller restore mode
2. NB5.1 mp2 had a major bug with w2k3. Just make sure you are higher (or
lower) than that. 

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Wilkinson,
Tim
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2006 12:27 AM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restoring entire servers (Windows)


I'm just reviewing disaster recovery at the moment and have found a
paragraph or 2 recommending that all system files and application files are
backed up. We generally run A_L_D in our policies 'just in case' but I've
been thinking about restoring system and application files and wonder how
most people approach this sort of thing.
We don't use BMR so I figure the best way to restore an entire server is to
rebuild the OS, install any applications then restore actual 'data'; I've
always considered if you try to restore 'everything' it could get a bit
messy and confused if some of it doesn't get restored exactly as it was
before. 
Without using BMR, can you restore the contents of an entire server in
Windows (I'm talking the whole show including system files, system_state
data, applications and everything)?
 
Cheers,



        
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