[Veritas-bu] Recovering W2k8 servers with EFI partition

We've been wrestling with recoveries of Windows 2k8 servers that have EFI
partitions.  We are finally able to back them up, but we are unable to
perform a full recovery.  We're using nearly identical hardware for the
recovery server and the restores all complete, but the server won't boot
afterwards.  We've followed the instructions in the technote for recovering
Windows 2008 servers without BMR, but no dice.

The client is at NBU 6.5.6 with the EEB installed to allow it to back up
the EFI partition.  We've run 'w2koption -backup -efi_boot_enabled 1' on
the client, and we get status 0 backups for all streams for the client.

Does anyone have any experience with performing system recoveries of this
type?  We routinely do test recoveries of other servers, but the ones with
EFI have us scratching our heads.  Is it possible to do a physical to
virtual restore of a server with an EFI partition?  My gut tells me that
the answer to that question is "no".
--
Jack Forester, Jr.
Sr. Data Protection Administrator
Global Technology Services - AHS
Mylan, Inc.
5005 Greenbag Road
Morgantown, WV 26501

jack.forester AT mylan DOT com

Phone: +1.304.554.6039
Cell: +1.412.805.5313


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